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  • People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

    Wall   Hate   Mean  
  • When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
  • To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

  • Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

    "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
  • The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

    FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 24, 2010
  • The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  • People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

  • No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

    Men   Listening   Next  
  • The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

    Wise   Strong   Talking  
    Jim Loehr, Dr. James E. Loehr, Tony Schwartz (2005). “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

  • Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

    Love   Inspiring   Dog  
  • We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

  • Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

    Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37
  • I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

    Talking   Ideas   Advice  
  • A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

  • To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

    Life   Devil   Doe  
  • We need silence to be able to touch souls.

    Nature   Stars   Moon  
    1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.
  • The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

  • When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

  • Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

    Mean   Loss   Talking  
  • Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

    Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.298, Mango Media Inc.
  • Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

  • You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com
  • Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

    Taken   Reading   Talking  
  • Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  • I never miss a good chance to shut up

    James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House
  • I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

    "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
  • Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

    Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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