Listening is give one’s attention to a sound.

1. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

2. Listening shows kids they matter, we love them, and their words are important
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3. Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. Margaret J. Wheatley

4. Listening means taking as second to consider what they're saying, not just hearing their words
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5. Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending
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6. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply
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7. People don't always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them
Anonymous

8. The most valuable asset is not a head full of knowledge. But a heart full of love, with an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help
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9. The world is giving you answers each day. Learn to listen
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10. Every good conversation starts with a good listening
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11. Love cannot be contained within our speaking or listening; Love is an ocean whose depths cannot be plumbed.
Rumi

12. We don't learn from talking; we learn from listening
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13. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Thomas Edison

14. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. Dalai Lama

15. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

16. He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.
Wilkie Collins

17. People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
Chuck Palahniu

18. Listening has the quality of the wizard's alchemy. It has the power to melt armor and to produce beauty in the midst of hatred.
Brian Muldoon

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

20. Don't think or judge. Just Listen.
Sarah Dessen

21. Listen wisely.. Listen to Others, Listen To Yourself,listen to the universe …
Vadim Kotelnikov

22. You Hear, But Are You Listening1 You Exist, But Are You Living1 YoU Look, But Do You See?
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23. Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Russell Baker

24. If speaking is silver, then listening is gold
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25. I remind myself every morning Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King

26. Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated
Beau Taplin

27. Most people can hear…few people can listen…
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28. The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph Nichols

29. If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy

30. Sometimes, you're not always right. Sometimes, you should just listen
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31. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

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32. Think of listening as a form of meditation. Quiet your mind and focus your attention on listening.
Linda Eve Diamond

33. Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
Ernest Hemingway

34. If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy

35. It's hard to listen while you're planning something you think needs to be said. Listing without background thinking is hard but totally worth it
Anonymous

36. You can ask why all you want, but it doesn't mean a damn thing if you're not listening to the answer. Rachel Wolchin

37. Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

38. You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect.
Harvey Mackay

39. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen R. Covey

40. There's so much you can learn when you just listen
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41. Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard M. Baruch

42. Listening is a positive act you have to put yourself out to do it.
David Hockney

43. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

44. Listening is the secret to discover Great Stories
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45. Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking
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46. No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen
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47. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly
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48. Sometimes people just need someone to listen. No advice. No words. Just a shoulder, an ear
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49. When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

50. Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a away that others love to speak to you
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51. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new
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52. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

53. There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen
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54. When i say nothing it means you should have listened the first time
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55. Don't Listen to what I say. Listen to what I mean
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56. The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

57. The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent
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58. There is a Difference Between Truly Listening & Waiting for Your Turn to Talk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. Listen Thrice Think Twice Speak Once
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60. People Talking But Not Speaking People Hearing But Not Listening
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61. One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say
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62. Listening to others viewpoints may reveal the one thing needed to complete your goals.
D. Ridgley

63. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply
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