Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

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

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

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.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

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- )

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

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

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.