listening skills quotes

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?