Listening

Listening

15 Quotes to Inspire You to Become a Better Listener

Listening skills are vital to your success in business -- and in life. For a fresh perspective, consider these insights from the world's great thinkers.

I've talked with Inc. before about the power of listening in social media. But the truth is, listening isn't just for social media. If there's one skill that we all can get better at, to become better leaders, entrepreneurs, friends, and human beings, it's listening. Recently, I shared 365 quotes from some of the greatest leaders, writers and thinkers of all time.

Here are 15 of my favorite quotes about the all-important skill of listening:

1. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." --Doug Larson
2. "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." --Bryant H. McGill
3. "If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk." --Robert Baden-Powell
4. "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 A. Menniger
5. "Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking." --Bernard Baruch
6. "Listening is being able to be changed by the other person." --Alan Alda
7. "Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening." --Jeanette Winterson
8. "There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking--and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones." --Daniel Dae Kim
9. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said" --Peter Drucker
10. "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." --Ernest Hemingway
11. "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." --Stephen R. Covey
12. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer." --Ed Cunningham
13. "The art of conversation lies in listening." --Malcom Forbes
14. "You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." --M. Scott Peck
15. "We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less." --Diogenes

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