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Listening Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.”

John D. Rockefeller

2. “It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.”

John D. Rockefeller

3. “The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozers are good listeners, not good talkers.”

Guy Kawasaki

4. “I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.”

Mitch Hedberg

5. “XM radio doesn’t have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I’m like, “What should I buy?””

Mitch Hedberg

6. “Most people don't want their problems to be solved by you. They just want to be heard by you.”

Ankur Warikoo

7. “Listening to someone without judgement or prescription is the most precious gift you can give someone.”

Ankur Warikoo

8. “Curious minds ask. Eager minds answer. Brilliant minds listen.”

Ankur Warikoo

9. “We can never be understood. We can only be heard.”

Ankur Warikoo

10. “We all need that somebody in life who says "Go on, I am here to listen" and actually mean it.”

Ankur Warikoo

11. “It is amazing how much you can get to know about a person in just a 30-min interview, if all that you do is LISTEN and not evaluate!”

Ankur Warikoo

12. “If you are listening, you will never run out of ideas.”

Ankur Warikoo

13. “The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”

Sam Walton

14. “Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.”

Sam Walton

15. “I always favored the mavericks who challenged my rules. I may have fought them all the way, but I respected them, and, in the end, I listened to them a lot more closely than I did the pack who always agreed with everything I said.”

Sam Walton

16. “If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.”

Sam Walton

17. “I’d still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.”

Sam Walton

18. “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

19. “Deep 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.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

20. “I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

21. “Just listen Be peace.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

22. “One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

23. “Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

24. “The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

25. “You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

26. “By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

27. “I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

28. “What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

29. “You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

30. “Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.”

Pythagoras

31. “It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”

Democritus

32. “Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

Plutarch

33. “The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.”

Plutarch

34. “The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.”

Plutarch

35. “Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.”

Plutarch

36. “We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.”

Thomas Merton

37. “Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.”

Thomas Merton

38. “He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child’s sensible utterance.”

Chanakya

39. “The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.”

Tara Brach

40. “Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.”

Amit Ray

41. “Open your ears before you open your mouth; it may surprise your eyes.”

Earl Nightingale

42. “One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

43. “Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.”

Sadhguru

44. “People will listen to you only when they know you’re dying, otherwise they’re just waiting for their turn to talk.”

Chuck Palahniuk

45. “People don’t listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.”

Chuck Palahniuk

46. “The Doppler Effect of Communication”: There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean.”

Amy Tan

47. “Scripture often reminds us that it’s not enough to have ears – we must use them.”

Max Lucado

48. “Listen if you want to be heard.”

John Wooden

49. “I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen – really listen – to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it’s difficult to listen when you are talking.”

John Wooden

50. “In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.”

John Wooden