LISTENING
"It is tact that is golden, not silence." -Samuel Butler
"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is
saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he
wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
-Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good Leadership
"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies
on the language of the first." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art." Frank Tyger
"Listening to your heart, finding out who you are, is not simple. It takes time for the chatter to quiet down. In the silence of "not doing" we begin to know what we feel. If we listen and hear what is being offered, then anything in life can be our guide. Listen." Found on a Poster
"We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." Diogenes Laertius
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something." Wilson Mizner
"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak." Francois La Rochefoucauld
"I like to listen.I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway
"No one every listened themselves out of a job." Calvin Coolidge
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears- by listening to them."
Dean Rusk
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." Doug Larson
"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
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." Plato
"From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. Italian Proverb
"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"A good listener is not only popular everwhere, but after a while he knows something." Wilson Mizner
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." James Baldwin
"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories." Rebecca Falls
"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Plutarch
"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking." Bernard Baruch
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." Leo Buscaglia
