Listening Quotes - Page 5

• Before you speak, listen.

  William Arthur Ward

  Speak

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perfection, Conversation, Wells

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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, Favourite

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• I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard.  Everyone has a listening point somewhere.  It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Doe, Quiet, Wilderness

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.14, Knopf

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• Listening to something is an act of surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Surrender

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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

  Andre Gide

  Communication, Learning, Knowledge

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• We never listen when we are eager to speak.

  Louise von Francois

  Communication, Speak, Just Listen

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• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Business, Communication, Silence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Truth

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Silence, Mind, Ears

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• Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

  Nelson Mandela

  Happiness, Morning, Live Life

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• Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

  Linda Hogan

  Love, Spiritual, Nature

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

  Jared Sparks

  Life, Motivational, Empathy

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• Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

  Nancy Lopez

  Fear, Positivity, Doubting Everything

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• Hear much; speak little.

  Bias of Priene

  Speech, Littles, Speak

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• I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.

  Angeles Arrien

  Real, Thinking, Rivers

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• A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Office

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2012

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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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• There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  James N. Miller

  Talking, Conversation, Breaths

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• In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.

  John Sculley

  Organization, Ideas, People

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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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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