Top 100 Talking Listening Quotes
#1. Selling is not the same thing as talking. Listening is the most important part in any sales job to close the sale.
Timi Nadela
#2. We have to stop all of the fighting and talking without listening and find a sense of compromise. It's very evident that it could possibly happen. No matter what your political views are, we're in a very dangerous state of politics.
Edwin Hodge
#3. I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.
Schoolboy Q
#4. If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#5. Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
Allen Ginsberg
#6. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. Kind of. Just - we don't know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we're spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that's dead isn't crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?
Heather Demetrios
#9. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
Brandon Routh
#10. Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
Charles Caleb Colton
#11. To truly understand a person, stop talking and start listening.
Amey Hegde
#12. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
Steve Nash
#13. We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.
Brenda Ueland
#14. The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.
E.B. White
#15. Nate had realized a while back that nobody talked with each other at such gatherings. People just took turns talking at each other. He never got the sense anyone was listening.
Peter Clines
#16. Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles ... they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.
Joel Spolsky
#17. Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.
Curtis Jackson
#19. I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.
Mayer Hawthorne
#20. Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
Shaun Hick
#21. I'd been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That's what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn't say much, I listened.
Rachel Kushner
#22. Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
Jim Berg
#23. My way to de-stress is either listening to music or talking to my sister, Kourtney. She's going to teach me how to meditate, and that should help a lot.
Kendall Jenner
#24. Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard M. Baruch
#25. I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#26. It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
Ethan Zuckerman
#27. I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.
Garrison Keillor
#28. When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
Laura Marling
#30. I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
Rick Riordan
#31. Traditional ways to deal with information
reading, listening, writing, talking
are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#32. I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.
Michael Thomas Ford
#33. We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm
#34. The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
#35. I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
Natalie Maines
#36. When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
Jenny Lewis
#37. We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'
Thomas Berry
#38. If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
A.A. Milne
#39. The most influential person in the room isn't the one who is being a bully, talking loudly, and imposing him- or herself on others. Surrendered people understand that true power comes from being respectful and listening.
Judith Orloff
#40. A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
Robert Breault
#41. Learn to listen when people are talking. Frist, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say ne thing they mean another.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#42. If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.
James Altucher
#44. When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.
George Carlin
#45. I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.
John Wooden
#46. When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.
Robert Kiyosaki
#47. I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.
Justin Verlander
#48. The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.
Thomas Banyacya
#49. My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
Bernard Moitessier
#50. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
Craig Newmark
#51. Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.
Chris Fabry
#52. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Susan Jacoby
#53. Well, that was embarrassing. There was nothing wrong with talking to the voices in my head
unless everyone else was listening in.
Kate Carlisle
#54. The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.
Dylan Moran
#55. There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
Raymond Chandler
#56. It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know.
Paul Neilan
#57. The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#58. Yet these new women would always pay to a man the extravagant compliment which no ordinary woman ever pays to him, that of listening while he is talking.
G.K. Chesterton
#59. If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening.
Terry Pratchett
#60. Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
Jill Scott
#61. Do remember that communication is an exchange of thoughts. This means listening and speaking are necessary. You can't call something a conversation if you're the only one talking or listening.
Mia Conrad
#62. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.
Leslie Ludy
#63. She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.
Matt Haig
#64. The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen
#65. A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Soren Kierkegaard
#66. If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
Roger McGuinn
#67. I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.
Sarah Paulson
#68. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'
John Cornwell
#69. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Brenda Ueland
#70. To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
Brad Listi
#71. She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.
Jessie Burton
#72. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.
Adrianne Brooks
#73. It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.
J.D. Masterson
#74. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
Sarah McLachlan
#75. I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
#76. Talking to spirits is how you free them. Listening to them is how you help them crossover.
Zak Bagans
#77. We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
Susan Cain
#78. People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence.
Paul Simon
#79. When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
Hannah More
#80. I tend to avoid people who always have something to say ... and those who expect me to always have something to say.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#81. Donny listed 10 Reasons Why She is Nuts
Talking to mushrooms (slime)
Listening to mushrooms (slime)
Seeing mushrooms glow in the dark (ridiculous)
Drinking grass
Eating dirt
Won't talk
Unreasonably rigid and manipulative
Doesn't like sports
Has no TV
Frigid
Sharon Weil
#82. Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.
Deyth Banger
#83. Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones
#84. It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.
N.D. Wilson
#85. I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.
Susan Cain
#86. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Mary Mihalic
#87. Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.
Helen Van Slyke
#88. I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.
Jamie Zeppa
#89. There's a thing - I've noticed it often. When I first say something, it's as if people don't hear me, they can't believe I'm saying it. Then they start to actually pay attention, they stop noticing that a teenage girl is talking and start to believe that it's worth listening to what I'm saying.
Jo Walton
#90. I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
Malachy McCourt
#91. An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!
Marlon Brando
#92. The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
Hayley Atwell
#93. What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
Gloria Gaither
#94. I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.
Ted Alexandro
#95. Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.
Mardy Grothe
#96. Most of us recognize how important it is to listen respectfully when our loved ones are talking; but we often forget that it is equally important to talk respectfully when they are listening.
Mardy Grothe
#97. A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
Evan Esar
#98. He's fine," Kamala said. "It's not like that. You're not listening." "I am listening! You just told me he's delusional, and I'm asking - " "I DID NOT SAY HE IS DELUSIONAL. I SAID HE WAS TALKING TO HIS MOTHER." "Who is dead," Amina said gently. "Obvious." "And that's not delusional?
Mira Jacob
#99. There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield
#100. The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.
Betty White
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