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\nEnjoy this collection of quotes on listening and hearing.
\n“Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.” – Evelyn Glennie
\n\u201cThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.\u201d \u2015 G. K. Chesterton
\n\u201cLooking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.\u201d \u2015 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
\n\u201cWe have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.\u201d \u2015 Diogenes Laertius
\n\u201cListen thrice. Think twice. Speak once.\u201d – Anonymous
\n\u201cMost of the successful people I\u2019ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.\u201d \u2015 Bernard M. Baruch
\n\u201cIt takes a great man to be a good listener.\u201d \u2015 Calvin Coolidge
\n\u201cThe art of conversation lies in listening\u201d \u2015 Malcolm Forbes
\n\u201cThe art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.\u201d \u2015 William Hazlit
\n\u201cThe word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.\u201d \u2015 Alfred Brendel
\n\u201cListening is about being present, not just about being quiet.\u201d Krista Tippett
\n\u201cYou can’t fake listening. It shows.\u201d \u2015 Raquel Welch
\n\u201cWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.\u201d \u2015 Ernest Hemingway
\n\u201cMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.\u201d \u2015 Stephen R. Covey
\n“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don\u2019t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don\u2019t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what\u2019s behind the words.” \u2015 Roy T. Bennett
\n\u201cIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.\u201d \u2015 Henry David Thoreau
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\n\u201cHow do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything \u2013 to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one\u2019s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?\u201d \u2015 Jiddu Krishnamurti
\n\u201cThe most basic of all human needs is to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.\u201d Ralph Nichols
\n\u201cSometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.\u201d \u2015 Roy T. Bennett
\n\u201cToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.\u201d \u2015 Leo Buscaglia
\n“Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
\n\u201cIf we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.\u201d \u2015 Bren\u00e9 Brown
\n“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryant H. McGill
\n“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.” – Alan Alda
\n\u201cListening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.\u201d L. J. Isham
\n\u201cDeep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.\u201d – Thich Nhat Hanh
\n\u201cListening is often the only thing needed to help someone.\u201d Anonymous
\n“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
\n\u201cThe first duty of love is to listen.\u201d – Paul Tillich
\n\u201cCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.\u201d Winston Churchill
\n\u201cThe worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listens.\u201d Charles Dickens
\n\u201cPart of doing something is listening.\u201d \u2015 Madeleine L’Engle
\n“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.” – Jane Goodall
\n\u201cYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.\u201d \u2013 Harper Lee
\n\u201cBe careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.\u201d – Lisa M. Hayes
\n“You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.” – Phil McGraw
\n“Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
\n\u201cNo one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.\u201d – Proverb
\n“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"