Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Listen more often than you speak.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

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

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

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.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

Most people never listen.

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

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

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.

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.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

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

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

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.