David Augsburger Quotes

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

I'm a pretty good listener.

I don't like guys who don't listen.

Women love to talk, so you gotta be the guy that listens - not just listens but is interested.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Helping begins with listening.

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

Listening is love in action.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

She was a genius at listening.

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.