A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he knows something.
?Wilson Mizner
Listen. Don't explain or justify.
?William G. Dyer
Be a good listener. Your ears
will never get you in trouble.
?Frank Tyger
Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so
we could hear twice as much as we speak.
?Epictetus
From listening comes wisdom,
and from speaking repentance.
?Italian Proverb
The greatest gift you can give another
is the purity of your attention.
?Richard Moss
I have learned as much about writing
about my people by listening to blues and jazz
and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
?Ernest J. Gaines
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say.
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
?Katharine Whitehorn
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from
listening carefully. Most people never listen.
?Ernest Hemingway
Every person I work with knows something
better than me. My job is to
listen long enough to find it and use it.
?Jack Nichols
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by
listening too intently to the clamors of the sense,
that we become oblivious of their utterances.
?Alexander Crummell
The first duty of love is to listen.
?Paul Tillich
Listening to both sides does not necessarily
bring about a correct judgment.
?Donald Rumsfeld
It is greed to do all the talking
but not to want to listen at all.
?Democritus of Abdera
A good listener tries to understand what the other
person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply,
but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly
what it is he is disagreeing with.
?Kenneth A. Wells
