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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

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

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.