The key to good listening isn’t technique, it’s desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we’ll never listen well.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still...

As a father, we need to actively listen.

.do you talk or walk?..

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, … I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the...

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know...

I talk about talking like I listen to listening—in a room with mirrored walls that makes me appreciate the infinity that is God.

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

A person hears only what they understand.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

I’m not a clever man, but I’m willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don’t try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don’t like...

People are listening to and enjoying music in a way that appeals to them, and we think that’s positive.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

Lately I’ve been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

One woman came up to me and said, ‘After listening to it, I started to cry,’

I am listening to everybody, in the sense that I feel myself in charge of an organization that has 182 members,

Ow!” she cried out. She would have a fresh bruise there by the time she went to sleep, somewhere out at sea. A bruise is a lesson, she told herself, and each lesson makes us...

…most people in the world don’t really use their brains to think. And people who don’t think are the ones who don’t listen to others.

I got a promo of ‘Nichts Muss’ in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via...

To listen to what I’d heard – as if I’d already learned everything I needed.

You can’t win an argument with an argument.

Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one’s listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one’s speaking skills.

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to...

In the theatre, once you’ve gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You’re very small, and nobody can really see what you’re doing.

We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself,...

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you’d meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify,...

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetcher, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story,...

A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill.

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that…and got control of herself with an visible effort. She took three deep breaths, each longer than the...

Don’t assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.