Carl Rogers Quotes

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

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.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

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.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

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.

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.

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

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

There is a craft and a power in listening.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.