The final stage ... of listening is responding. All the effort involved in sensing, interpreting, and evaluating lead to this point, and the process of listening is not complete without it. - Chris Battell
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. - Thomas Hardy
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening. - Evan Sesar
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter is taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him. - Charles Dickens
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries. - Charles Dickens
The word listening is defined as making an effort to hear something; to pay attention or heed. It is different from hearing, which is the physiological process of the ear absorbing sound waves and transferring them along neural pathways to parts of the brain. Hearing is necessary for listening, but listening is much more than processing sound. Someone may hear very well but be a very poor listener. - Lisa J. Downs
The world has always needed good listeners, for only good listeners are truthful tellers. - Ernest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham
The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen. - Charles Dickens
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak. - Lisa Ford
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing. - G. K. Chesterton
There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too. - Katherine Hannigan
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going. - Sarah Dessen
To be agreeable you must learn to be a good listener. A man who monopolizes a conversation is a bore, no matter how great his knowledge. - Unknown
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. - Zeno of Citium
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway
Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person. - Harriet Lerner
Wisdom comes with talking less frivolously and listening more seriously. The latter implies a learning attitude; the former assumes an air of omniscience that does not exist. - S. K. Chakraborty
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. - Joh Green
Your aim is not to make speakers perceive you as working hard to listen. False listening is worse than no listening at all. - Rebecca Z. Shafir
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