Best listening & speakers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.”

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Book:Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership

Source: Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership

“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”

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Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.”

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Author:James Taylor

“Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.”

Listening Seeking Speakers Synchronicity

Book:Teaching and Researching: Listening

Source: Teaching and Researching: Listening

“Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.”

Process Listening Creating Speakers

Author:Michael Rost

“Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.”

Mind Listening Speakers

Book:Teaching and Researching: Listening

Source: Teaching and Researching: Listening

“Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.”

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Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”

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Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.”

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Author:M. Scott Peck

“Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.”

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Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.”

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Author:Kevin Shields

“There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.”

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Author:J. Cole

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments

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