(1663 quotes found)
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
Fran Lebowitz
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing.”
Maxwell Maltz
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
Andre Gide
“Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.”
Marjorie Kellogg
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.”
Brenda Ueland
“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.”
Katherine Whitehorn
“What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.”
Dave Barry
“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”
Buddha
“The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.”
Dean Rusk
