John Layfield Quotes

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

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.

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

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

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

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

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

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.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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.

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

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

Listen if you want to be heard

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

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.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

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