Steven Spielberg Quotes

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.

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

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

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

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.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Listen if you want to be heard

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.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

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

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.

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.