Willow Bay Quotes

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

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.

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

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

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

Listen twice as much as you speak.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

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.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

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

We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

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.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

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.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.