John Whitehead Quotes

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

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

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.

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 more than you talk.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

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

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.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

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.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

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.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Listen more than you speak.

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.

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.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.