Receptive Listening Quotes

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

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.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

Give us grace to listen well.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.