An inane person tends to get excited whatever is being said.
Heraclitus

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be
understood.
Ralph Nichols

Our first responsibility as effective listeners is to understand
ourselves as communicators. Just as the sources of the communication
message shout be trained in self-intrapersonal communication, so, too,
should listeners know themselves.
Andrew Wolvin & Carolyn Coakley

The spoken word belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who
listens.
French Proverb

I think I'll learn more from listening. Anything I would say I already know.
Anonymous student, explaining her silence in a discussion

It takes a rare person to want to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Dick Cavett

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now
and then.
Richard Armour

You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the
conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker
doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of
listening. Every person I work with knows something better than me. My
job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
Jack Nichols

The only time some people really listen is when they are the ones asking
the questions.
Angela Bright

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge

Listen. Don't explain or justify.
William G. Dyer

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen
to each other's stories.
Rebecca Falls

Listening is what people pretend to do while they're waiting for the
chance to say the thing they wanted to say before you interrupted them.
Anonymous

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