Listening Quotes - Page 7

• Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Karma, Communication

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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• At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.

  Eric Clapton

  Men, Play, Trying

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Communication

  "What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results". Book by Howard Edson (p. 184), 2003.

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• The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Education, Children, Learning

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.101, Macmillan

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• We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspiration, Responsibility, Self

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.21, Penguin

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• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Morning, Jobs

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

  Frank Bettger

  Magic

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• If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

  Jake Roberts

  Power, Men, Speak

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• Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Book, Fall

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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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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

  Brenda Ueland

  Tired, Listening To Others, People

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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  You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

  Seth Godin

  Success, Effectiveness, People

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Mar 21, 2014

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• Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

  Mark Nepo

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

  Andrew Mason

  Saint, Woe, Description

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• Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

  Hafez

  Integrity, Why Not, Polite

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• No man ever listened himself out of a job.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Jobs, Men, Media Training

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• People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

  Michael J. Fox

  Leadership, Drinking, Discovery

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• Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

  Richard Branson

  Leader, Good Listener, Listeners

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jun 19, 2012

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• And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Gathering, Attention

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.262, Hamilton Books

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• The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Prayer, Silence, Empathy

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Art, Cutting, Order

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• Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Life Is Like, Sake

  Alan Watts (1983). “The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self”, Weatherhill, Incorporated

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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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