Quotes on Listening And Hearing

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

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.

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

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.