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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
William G. Dyer
You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.
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One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.
Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut
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
He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri
Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Hamlet
William Shakespeare
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
Walter Matthau
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
John Erskine
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
Edmond de Goncourt
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
Jessamyn West
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Johann von Goethe
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.
Stephen King
Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!
Neil Gaiman