Carl Jung Quotes

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

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

Conversation makes one what he is.

I find people confusing.

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.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

How you use your voice is really important, and it's really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody's mood and immediately how their brain functions.

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.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

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

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

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

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Listen twice as much as you speak.