“The word listen is derived from two Anglo-Saxon words. One word is hlystan, which means hearing. The other is hlosnian, which means to wait in suspense. Listening, then, is the combination of hearing what the other person says and a suspenseful waiting…”
- John Stewart
“Listening is a search to find the treasure of the true person revealed verbally and nonverbally.”
- John Powell, theologian
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”
- Wilson Mizner
“Listening is the single skill that makes the difference between a mediocre and a great company.”
- Lee Iacocca
“It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.”
- Richard Armour
“The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
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“History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.”
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“People hate each other because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t understand each other. People don’t understand each other because they don’t know how to listen.”
- Martin Luther King
“It is the province of knowledge to speak. And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- Winston Churchill
“To communicate is risky, to not communicate is riskier.”
- Anonymous
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
- Karl Menninger
“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
- Winnie the Pooh
"Life is short; let’s not waste another minute being deaf to the beauty of the people we know."
-Marcia McReynolds
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