Stephen Covey Quotes

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they're thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you're doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can't just pretend to listen.

Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.

It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.

It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.

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 think girls are surprised when you actually really listen and then you call it back at the end of the night.

Communication works for those who work at it.

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

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.