Quotes about Listening

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."
-Calvin Coolidge

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
-Frank Tyger

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
-Kin Hubbard

"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."
-Margaret Cho

"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
-Albert Guinon

"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
-Igor Stravinsky

"As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things."
-Po Bronson

"Very few people would listen if they didn't know it was their turn next."
-Robert Conklin

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
-Wilson Mizner

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens."
-Nick Diamos

"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor."
-Hugh Elliott

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
-Plutarch

"Listen and be led."
-L. M. Heroux

"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie."
-Theodore H. White

"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
-Dorothy Sarnoff

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
-Seneca

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. "
-Frank Tyger

"Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
-Rabindranath Tagore

"It can be a distraction. You tend to lose focus when you work because you're listening to that person."
-Travis Price

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

"We are open to continuing talks with the hospital industry and listening to what other amendments may entail."
-Anne Murphy

"He didn't want a whole bunch of people sitting around listening to him."
-David Demartini

"The first time I heard his name, I stopped listening to all the things about the other candidates."
-Derrick Roberts

"It really shows that they're finally listening to the people of Greenville."
-Catherine Johnson