Greg Mortenson Quotes

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

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

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.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

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.

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

Listen if you want to be heard

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

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.