Listening Skills Quotes

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.

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

In listening lies great power.Many are expert in speaking (while everyone hears), adept in analyzing in bits and pieces, very prompt in commenting, and always ready to stamp judgement of 'right' or 'wrong'.Very few are skilled in listening, first, with the ears and, then, with the heart. Those who do hold true, sustainable, and great power.

Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.

While others are broadcasting be listening

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

One of the greatest ways you can affirm value in another person is by giving them the gift of your undivided attention, the kind of attention that says, “I hear what you are saying because I value who you are.” You don’t have to agree with someone to show them their value as a person. Listening demonstrates that any person you meet is worthy of your respect and attention.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

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

Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie down on the table. He bent my right knee this way and that, up and down, all the way out to the side and in. Then he did the same with my left leg. He ordered X rays then started to leave the room. I panicked. I MUST GET DRUGS."What can I take for the pain?" I asked him before he got out the door."You can take some over the counter ibuprofen," he suggested. "But I wouldn't take more than nine a day."I choked. Nine a day? I'd been popping forty. Nine a day? Like hell. I couldn't even go to the bathroom on my own, I hadn't slept in three weeks, and my normally sunny cheery disposition had turned into that of a very rabid dog. If I didn't get good drugs and get them now, it was straight to Shooter's World and then Walgreens pharmacy for me."I don't think you understand," I explained. "I can't go to work. I have spent the last four days with my mother who is addicted to QVC, watching jewelry shows, doll shows and make-up shows. I almost ordered a beef-jerky maker! Give me something, or I'm going to use your calf muscles to make the first batch!"Without further ado, he hastily scribbled out a prescription for some codeine and was gone. I was happy.My mother, however, had lost the ability to speak.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.

Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting "On the Origin of Speeches" past one another.

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

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

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you — not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.

Our spirit wants to experience connection by being seen, felt and heard. When you ask and listen deeply with curiosity to whatever wants to be expressed, you are giving one of the most precious gifts you can give to one you love.

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

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.

At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both.

Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

The cane is just not going to cut it. I shared with some of my colleagues that these brothers live in neighborhoods where they are getting whapped with a piece of stick all night, stabbed with knives, and pegged with screwdrivers that have been sharpened down, and they are leaking blood. When you come to a fella without even interviewing him, without sitting him down to find out why you did what you did, your only interest is caning him, because you are burned out and frustrated yourself. You say to him, ‘Bend over, you are getting six.’ And the boy grits his teeth, skin up his face, takes those six cuts, and he is gone. But have you really been effective? Caning him is no big deal, because he’s probably ducking bullets at night. He has a lot more things on his mind than that. On the other hand, we can further send our delinquent students into damnation by telling them they are no body and all we want to do is punish, punish, punish. Here at R.M. Bailey, we have been trying a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, nothing that we do is better than the voice itself. Nothing is better than talking to the child, listening, developing trust, developing a friendship. Feel free to come to me anytime if something is bothering you, because I was your age once before. Charles chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of the R. M. Bailey Pacers school.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.

You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

One can learn from what is not said.

We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature.

A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Open your mind and let the universe speak to you