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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Communication
Speak
Mouth
Ears
Listen
Much
Twice
Two
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage
Speak
Sit
Down
Takes
Also
Up
Listen
Stand
Stand Up
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
Chantal Sutherland
God
Myself
Nature
Me
People
Thank God
Parents
Believe
Way
Brought
Determined
Well
Up
Very
Times
Times People
Thank
Listen
Anything
Stand
Many
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
I Have Learned
People
Listening
Great Deal
Carefully
Never
Like
Most
Learned
Deal
Listen
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
Honesty
Carefully
Selfishness
Listen
Your
Measure
Conscience
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
Rumi
Soul
Heart
Enemy
Mouth
Hundred
Silent
My Friend
Like
Shell
Friend
Up
Lips
Listen
Your
Yours
Tongue
Tongues
If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
Zig Ziglar
You
Business
Trust
People
Like
Listen
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
Understand
Reply
Listen
Intent
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education
Losing
Temper
Ability
Self-Confidence
Almost
Almost Anything
Without
Listen
Anything
Your
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
You
World
Wait
Will
Solitary
No Choice
Table
Remain
Simply
Freely
Feet
Ecstasy
Still
Leave
Itself
Offer
Quiet
Roll
Sitting
Listen
Room
Choice
Your
Even
Need
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
Howard Schultz
Life
Myself
You
Blame
Yourself
People
Say
Responsible
Pick
Self-Pity
Lot
Up
Wallow
Listen
Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
Simon Sinek
Never Give Up
You
World
Build
Others
See
Give
Only
Never
Drum
Makes
Sound
Up
Trying
Quit
Listen
Your
Sweetest
Even
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
Pope Francis
Love
Service
Government
Best
Good
You
Man
Woman
Humble
People
Better
Path
Will
Every
Everybody
Those
Must
Diverse
Take
Opinions
Am
Governance
Questions
Up
Listen
Order
Them
Themselves
Ask
Your
Choose
Who
Serve
Every Man
Two
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
People
Never
Most
Talk
Listen
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II
Freedom
Women
Humanity
Law
Men
Men And Women
Wish
Society
Rule
Rule Of Law
About
Voice
Purpose
Know
Does
Hearts
Listen
Anything
Against
Turns
Engraved
Conscience
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
War
You
People
Obey
Will
Rest
Our
Say
Claim
Telling
People Say
Instinct
Instincts
Like
Listen
Expense
Different
Us
Each
Different Things
Gratified
Things
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton
War
Time
You
Battle
Fear
Decision
Made
Fears
Important
Before
Every
Collected
All The Facts
Counsel
Take
Facts
Make
Go
Off
Listen
Turn
Turn-Off
Your
Imagine
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
Thurgood Marshall
You
Goals
Follower
Become
Own
Others
Must
Individual
Pick
Blind
Listen
Your
Each
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Pope Francis
Work
Music
Time
Together
Culture
People
Relax
Enjoy
Way
Must
Take
Put
Sport
Read
Another
Another Way
Families
Listen
Leisure
Themselves
Who
Gratification
Play
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Stephen Covey
You
Giving
Understanding
Reflect
Back
Point
Point Of View
Emotional
Like
Another
Person
Listen
Oxygen
Them
Really
View
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott
Eyes
Try
Spring
Pay
Pay Attention
Trees
Attention
Look
Around
Am
Up
Close
Going
Listen
Hectic
Flowers
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian
Motivational
Those
Know
Listen
Who
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Hugh Hefner
Good
You
Selfish
People
Other
Never
Self-Centered
Listen
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Forgiveness
Great
Angry
Soul
Enemies
Manly
Nothing
Believe
Think
Ought
Our
Those
Noble
Clearly
Clemency
Readiness
Praiseworthy
Forgive
Listen
Us
Who
Shows
Let Us
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob Dylan
Music
World
Those
Run
Never
Sure
Listen
Anyway
Land
Your
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
Richard Branson
Good
You
People
Leader
Good Leader
Critical
Absolutely
Line
Front
Listen
Front Line
Listener
Being
Who
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