Just Listen Quotes

• Don't think or judge, just listen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Thinking, Judging

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.165, Penguin

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Listening To Others, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

  Sue Thoele

  Summer, Communication, Judging

  Sue Patton Thoele (2000). “Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership”

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• Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

  Sarah Dessen

  Music, Peace, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

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• Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Empathy, Advice

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Art, Educational

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• The first duty of love is to listen.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Relationship, Positive, Success

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Running, Past

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Silence, Listening, Kitchen Table

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Listening To Others, Giving, Silence

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Time, Communication

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Trying, Helping

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Memorable, Listening To Others

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.

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• One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Lonely, Pain, Cancer

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• I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention And especially if it's given from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don't value ourselves or our love enough to know this.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Listening

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• There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

  Albert Guinon

  Relationship, People, Listening

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• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Communication

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• Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

  Andrew Miller

  Mean, Loss, Talking

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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