Good Listener Quotes

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also think you have to feel like you want to enrich your life, and you want to keep your eyes open, and you want to listen and be a good listener.

I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.

I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good listener, however. Thinking that I was a good listener was one thing that kept me from being a good listener. It's a very dangerous thought. I just want to be better.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

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.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

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

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.

However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.