“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – Bryant H. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.” ― Brené Brown If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.” – Thich Nhat Hanh “Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. “Too 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.” ― Leo Buscaglia Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.” ― Roy T. “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear all he or she needs is to talk it out. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” Ralph Nichols “The most basic of all human needs is to understand and be understood. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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 – 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’s own desires through which one listens. “How 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. “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.” ― Henry David Thoreau We listen for what’s behind the words.” ― Roy T. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.” ― Stephen R. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway “Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.” Krista Tippett “The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.” ― Alfred Brendel
“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ― William Hazlit “The art of conversation lies in listening” ― Malcolm Forbes “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” ― Calvin Coolidge
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” ― Bernard M. “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.” ― Diogenes Laertius
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana “There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” ― G. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.” – Evelyn Glennie Enjoy this collection of quotes on listening and hearing.