Quotes About Listening To Others

#1. Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Alfred Doblin

#2. We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions

Jeremy Aldana

#3. Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#4. Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

Janet Yellen

#5. Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

Jim Kolbe

#6. What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Gichin Funakoshi

#7. Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

Chungliang Al Huang

#8. Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

Brian Tracy

#9. Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

John C. Maxwell

#10. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#11. I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Jeremy Robinson

#13. Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?

Stephen R. Covey

#14. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

#15. For dialogue to be fruitful, we need to live deeply our own tradition and, at the same time, listen deeply to others. Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' tradition.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#16. God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.

Melody Beattie

#17. Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.

Abhishek Ratna

#18. To self-righteously project without a thought of listening is a form of constant selfishness

Paul Isaacs

#19. Doing things for others is something that money cannot buy it is a priceless act which gives an abundance of worthy feelings for both involved, to empower others and to know that others care is an key part of listening, the stoppage of wars, the foundations of a hopeful future for everybody.

Paul Isaacs

#20. We are far more revealing by the questions we ask than the answers we give. Answer briefly to sense where their questions are heading.

Kare Anderson

#21. Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

John Katzenbach

#22. Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

Matt Nathanson

#23. Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

Anthony Hopkins

#25. Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.

Chingy

#26. I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

Courtney Milan

#27. It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

Gary Cole

#28. When others cannot find something to hold onto ... we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.

Aaron Woodall

#29. Most of us are so focused on what we are thinking that we miss most of what goes on in our conversations.

John Stoker

#30. I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

Bill Frisell

#31. As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

Todd Rundgren

#32. The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.

Ellery Queen

#33. Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#34. I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Nhat Hanh

#35. more than others see. Be more than others are. You're too interesting to be single layered. Too many people go through life seeing only what they expect. They view life waiting to be heard, rather than listening and seeing what others do not.

Melissa Foster

#36. Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.

Anthea Syrokou

#37. Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.

Cheryl Hamada

#38. I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

Julia Cameron

#39. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#40. Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

Esther Dyson

#41. Tango is a truth drug. It lays bare your problems and your complexes, but also the strengths you hide from others so as not to vex them. It shows what a couple can be for each other, how they can listen to each other. People who only want to listen to themselves will hate tango.

Nina George

#42. I could deny myself the pleasure of talking, but not to others the pleasure of listening.

Oscar Wilde

#43. Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

Ashish Patel

#44. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt, - dumbly calling, deafly listening - that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in its defeat, stirs the soul to be strong?

Marianne Moore

#45. There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#46. Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Isocrates

#47. A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

Marvin J. Ashton

#48. There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#49. For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

Mark Nepo

#50. Living
consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
moment.

Sidney Poitier

#51. Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

Arthur Kleinman

#52. Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.

Gerald Jampolsky

#53. Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

Anonymous

#54. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

Mark Nepo

#55. Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

Stephenie Meyer

#56. Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

Frederick Lenz

#57. Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange

J. Benson

#58. There aren't many kids today as good as you are. Kids today are selfish; they don't think of others. They're too busy listening to devil music on their eight-track players to think of anyone else.

K. Martin Beckner

#59. The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

Simon Mainwaring

#60. Most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Haruki Murakami

#61. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Richard Carlson

#62. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#63. Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

Seneca The Younger

#64. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant McGill

#65. Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Umberto Eco

#66. God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.

Dejan Stojanovic

#68. I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

Chirlane McCray

#69. Listening is the best way to complement and value others opinion.

Debasish Mridha

#70. So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#71. Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.

Philip B. Crosby

#72. There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

Phil Heath

#73. Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

Joshua Harris

#74. But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Gary Chapman

#75. For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

Stefan Zweig

#76. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Steve Goodier

#77. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#78. Forget "minimum viable products" - ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others' successes.

Peter Thiel

#79. Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

John P. Kotter

#80. He sneered with the impatience of people listening to the obvious lies of others.

Anne Rice

#81. It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Matt Perman

#82. We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#83. Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

Sharon Salzberg

#84. We usually need to remind ourselves of the option to listen during a conversation, but rarely need to remind ourselves of the option to talk.

Lawrence J. Bookbinder

#85. Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

Peter Kreeft

#86. One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. - DEAN RUSK

Kerry Patterson

#87. We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.

Thomas Gordon

#88. We have to be in a listening mode: it is about dialogue, about listening to what the others have to say, about cooperating in the best way possible. These are the values and principles that we put forward.

Pierre Vimont

#89. I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold

#90. I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

Errol Morris

#91. If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
to help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
than 2 stop and c what makes u cry

Tupac Shakur

#92. For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.

Daniel H. Pink

#93. One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Alexander Smith

#94. In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

Salman Rushdie

#95. Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Joel Osteen

#96. Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#97. Anyone who takes the time to listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.

Martina Boone

#99. If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

Stephen Malkmus

#100. A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

Evan Esar