Listening Quotes
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. (Quote by - Larry King)
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. (Quote by - Kenneth A. Wells)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it. (Quote by - E. Brian)
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. (Quote by - Sa'di)
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.(Quote by - Thoreau)
I can't think of a music genre that I don't listen to, apart from easy listening, actually. And indie. (Quote by - Jade Jagger)
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. (Quote by - Robert Greenleaf)
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. (Quote by - Buddha)
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.(Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. (Quote by - Dr Joyce Brothers)
I must have been quite young, about five. At the time it was the coolest thing I had. I played it all the time and couldnt stop listening to it [bad by michael jackson] (Quote by - James Morrison)
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. (Quote by - James Nathan Miller)
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (Quote by - J. Isham)
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances. (Quote by - Alexander Crummell)
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. (Quote by - Katharine Whitehorn)
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening. (Quote by - Boy George)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening (Quote by - Jamie Carragher)
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important (Quote by - Walter J Lippmann)
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Nancy Kerrigan)
Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps. (Quote by - Argentine Proverb)
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. (Quote by - Franklin P Jones)
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
There's nothing better than making music, other than knowing lots of people are listening to your music! (Quote by - Artful Dodger)
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. (Quote by - D.j. Kaufman)
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge. (Quote by - Bill Frisell)
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. (Quote by - Democritus of Abdera)
If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak. (Quote by - Epictetus)
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth.(Quote by - Sara Paddison)
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.(Quote by - Josh Billings)
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
Thanks very much for tuning in and listening to the show, hopefully you're going to be entertained in the next couple of hours! (Quote by - Bailey Schneider)
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
The first duty of love is to listen. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
A good listener is a silent flatterer (Quote by - Proverb)
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. (Quote by - Diogenes)
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them. (Quote by - Brian Koslow)
The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards. (Quote by - Edward H. Richards)
Much silence makes a powerful noise. (Quote by - African Proverb)
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. (Quote by - Native American)
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. (Quote by - Richard Moss)
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it. (Quote by - Jack Nichols)
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. (Quote by - Ernest J. Gaines)
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I'm not listening. (Quote by - Homer Simpson)
At one stage yesterday after we'd lost two quick wickets I went to sit in the car park. And us cricketers are a superstitious bunch so I sat there for a while listening to the radio after Kevin Pietersen was dropped and then started to hit out. [Ashes 2005] (Quote by - David Graveney)
Listen. Don't explain or justify. (Quote by - William G. Dyer)
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. (Quote by - John Lahr)
Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. (Quote by - Richard Carlson)
An actor is a kind of guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening. (Quote by - George Glass)
But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. (Quote by - Lord Byron )
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. (Quote by - Paul Westerberg)
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! (Quote by - P J Harvey)
