John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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.

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

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

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.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

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

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

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.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

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.

Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

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.

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.

Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response.

Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

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.