Top 12 Most Famous Quotes About Active Listening (BEST)
“Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable — and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That’s how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities.”
Peter Nulty
PinTo say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It’s a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued. – Deborah TannenPinListening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self. – Dean JacksonPinI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway
“I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.”
PinMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. – Stephen R. CoveyPinLeadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. – George W. BushPinOne of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. – Bryant H. McGill
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
PinWisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. – Doug LarsonPinI 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. – Larry King
“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”
“You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard; get on out of here!’ — then you’ll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot.”
John Bryan
PinYou cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. – M. Scott PeckPinMost of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. – Bernard BaruchPinIf you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk. – Robert Baden-Powell
“To learn through listening, practice it naively and actively. Naively means that you listen openly, ready to learn something, as opposed to listening defensively, ready to rebut. Listening actively means you acknowledge what you heard and act accordingly.”
Betsy Sanders
PinThe most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. – Peter DruckerPinThe word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. – Alfred BrendelPinWe have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. – DiogenesPinWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest HemingwayPinEverything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. – Jeanette WintersonPinThe most basic of all human needs is to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. – Ralph NicholsPinThe art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. – James Cash PenneyPinCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston ChurchillPinI listened more than I studied, therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. – Joseph HaydnPinListening is about being present, not just about being quiet. – Krista TippettPinThere is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak. – Simon SinekPinThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. – Woodrow WilsonPinKnowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. – Jimi HendrixPinI’m not afraid of confrontation. It doesn’t have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to. – Adam GoodesPinPart of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers. – Anne Burrell
15 Motivational Quotes to Improve Your Listening Skills
“Not everyone with a problem needs you to solve it. Sometimes all a person needs is to feel like they’ve been heard. Listening without judging can be more effective than injecting your opinions or trying to solve a problem that doesn’t have an easy answer.”
Zero Dean
PinListening doesn’t always equate to hearing. Hearing doesn’t always lead to understanding but active listening helps each person truly ‘see’ the other. – Sanjo JendayiPinSilence is like white space in design, it surrounds what’s important! – Kate MurphyPinReflective listening reinforces that you have been actively listening. – Asa Don Brown
“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”
Alice Miller
PinListen with the will to learn. – Unarine RamaruPinWhen we listen, we hear someone into existence. – Laurie Buchanan, PhDPinListen with your eyes as well as your ears. – Graham SpeechleyPinListening is an effect. Communication is cause. – Meir EzraPinThe art of conversation lies in listening. – Malcolm Forbes
“Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.”
Richard Carlson
PinDon’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering. – A. A. MilnePinListening is being able to be changed by the other person. – Alan AldaPinYou learn when you listen. You earn when you listen – not just money but respect. – Harvey MackayPinLearn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
10 Enriching Quotes that Emphasize the Importance of Active Listening
“Active listening is not only a matter of making yourself available to hear someone talk, but it is showing the sender, physically, that you are receiving and understanding their message on all levels.”
Susan C. Young
PinWhen you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. – Dalai LamaPinSomewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. – Henri Nouwen
“Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?”
PinChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right. – Jane GoodallPinListening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. – David HockneyPinWhen we invest in active listening, the dividend is an expanded capacity for compassion. – Laurie BuchananPinJust the act of listening means more than you can imagine. – Bob NelsonPinMan’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. – Carl RogersPinListening to others viewpoints may reveal the one thing needed to complete your goals. – D. Ridgley
8 Powerful Quotes on Active Listening that Will Help You Cultivate Deeper Relationships with Others
“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”
Roy T. Bennett
PinThere is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking–and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. – Daniel Dae KimPinThe first duty of love is to listen. – Paul Tillich
“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.”
PinListening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. – L. J. IshamPinFriends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
Karl A. Menniger
“Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.”