We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
I never miss a good chance to shut up
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Listen more than you talk.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.
I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
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