#LEADERSHIPTWEETSTop Leadership Quotes on Listening

-Doug Larson

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."

-Bryant H. McGill

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."

-Robert Baden-Powell

"If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk."

-Karl A. Menniger

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we

move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

-Bernard Baruch

"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking."

-Alan Alda

"Listening is being able to be changed by the other person."

-Jeanette Winterson

"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."

-Daniel Dae Kim

"There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking--and that goes for all

relationships, not just romantic ones."

-Peter Drucker

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said"

-Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

-Stephen R. Covey

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

-Ed Cunningham

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."

-Malcom Forbes

"The art of conversation lies in listening."

-M. Scott Peck

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."

-Diogenes

"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

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