Listening Quotes - Page 20

• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  Tony Bennett

  Should Have, Empathy, Understanding

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• I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

  Bob Galvin

  People, Empathy, Understanding

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• If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Talking, Empathy, Understanding

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.44, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Believe, Talking, Organization

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• In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

  John Wooden

  Empathy, Leader, Understanding

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• I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

  John Stott

  Pain, Voice, Despair

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• If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

  Martin McDonagh

  People, Crafts, Might

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• We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.

  Brian Andreas

  Beach, Fun, Hard Work

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• This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.

  Jim Harrison

  Morning, Reading, Coffee

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• One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Healing, Coaching

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Feet, Trying

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• Listening is one of the forms of love.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Form, Forms Of Love

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• One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

  Richard L. Evans

  Children, Opportunity, Remember

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• The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  Richard L. Evans

  Important, May, Interruptions

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• Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

  Richard L. Evans

  People, Young

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• What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

  Richard L. Evans

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Ingredients, Building

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• Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

  Sharon G. Larsen

  Love Is, Midnight, Way

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• Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Children, Parent, And Love

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• 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

  Communication, Practice, Ingredients

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• Encourage your children to come to you for counsel with their problems and questions by listening to them every day. Discuss with them such important matters as dating, sex, and other matters affecting their growth and development, and do it early enough so they will not obtain information from questionable sources.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sex, Children, Dating

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.

  William R. Bradford

  Laughter, Feelings, Unity

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• And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Golf, Winning

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• Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Heart, Silence, Empathy

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