Paulo Freire Quotes

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

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

People love to talk but hate to listen.

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.

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.

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.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

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

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

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

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

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

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

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Listen twice as much as you speak.