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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
Michel de Montaigne
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King
It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
Dick Cavett
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your ability to move others into appropriate, timely, and effective action is largely determined by the consequences of your speaking and listening.
Suzanne Mayo Frindt
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge
One who cares is one who listens.
J. Richard Clarke
You need to become a good listener. VERY VERY important. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
Jacqueline Bisset, Interview on
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.
Robert C. Murphy
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking to.
Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mer
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Pearl Bailey, Talking to Myself
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
Yiddish Proverb
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
Socrates