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But yet she listen'd--'tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Mazeppa (st. 6)
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He holds him with his glittering eye--
. . . .
And listens like a three years' child.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. I, st. 4), last line claimed by Wordsworth
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Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,), The Sicilian's Tale--Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore
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In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 17)
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And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but
to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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Listen. Don't explain or justify.
Author: William G. Dyer
Source: None
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Author: Frank Tyger
Source: None
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
Author: Epictetus
Source: None
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From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Author: Italian Proverb
Source: None
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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Author: Richard Moss
Source: None
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Source: None
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Author: Katharine Whitehorn
Source: None
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Source: None
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Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
Author: Jack Nichols
Source: None
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It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
Author: Alexander Crummell
Source: None
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The first duty of love is to listen.
Author: Paul Tillich
Source: None
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Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
Source: None
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Author: Democritus of Abdera
Source: None
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A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Author: Kenneth A. Wells
Source: None
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Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
Author: Sa'di
Source: None
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. -Wilson Mizner.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.
Author: Sara Paddison
Source: None
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Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.
Author: J. Isham
Source: None
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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.
Author: John Lahr
Source: None
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Author: Brenda Ueland
Source: None
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It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Source: None
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.
Author: M. Scott Peck
Source: None
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.
Author: Robert C. Murphy
Source: None
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. -Nancy Kerrigan.
Author: Nancy Kerrigan
Source: None
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Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.
Author: D.j. Kaufman
Source: None
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The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
Author: E. Brian
Source: None
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Author: Diogenes
Source: None
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No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
Source: None
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There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.
Author: James Nathan Miller
Source: None
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Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
Author: African Proverb
Source: None
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Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
Author: Robert Greenleaf
Source: None
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The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Source: None
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The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.
Author: Paul Tillich
Source: None
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
Author: M. Scott Peck
Source: None
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billings.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.
Author: Native American
Source: None
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Well done is better than well said. -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.
Author: Thoreau
Source: None
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