Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

Listening is an art.

Listen if you want to be heard

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

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.

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.

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

Listen twice as much as you speak.

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

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.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.

Listening is a sign of respect.