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Listening

«Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.»
Author: Bernard M. Baruch (Economist) | About: Listening | Keywords: listening, talking
«To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | About: Listening | Keywords: duck, ducked, ducking, hears, merit, merited
«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.»
«Listen and be led.»
Author: L. M. Heroux | About: Listening
«The first duty of love is to listen.»
«Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.»
Author: Shel Silverstein | About: Children, Cute, Dreams, Life, Listening | Keywords: close, close to
«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.»
«No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.»
«Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf»
Author: Indian Proverb | About: Listening | Keywords: deaf, deaf to
«No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.»

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