--- title: "1 Know Listening Quotes By wildbow" description: "1 Know Listening quotes by wildbow. Plus more from wildbow and more Know Listening sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e56/wildbow-7723_communication_okay-here-s-a-cheat-i-learned-in-a-leade_6210.jpg" --- > [“Okay, here’s a cheat I learned in a leadership seminar. It’s called active listening. Someone says something, a complaint, or a criticism, or they’re excited about something that happened to them. For a lot of us, our instinct is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/okay-here-s-a-cheat-i-learned-in-a-leadership-seminar-it-s-called/) wildbow [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e56/wildbow-7723_communication_okay-here-s-a-cheat-i-learned-in-a-leade_6210.jpg) ## More by wildbow > [“Okay, here’s a cheat I learned in a leadership seminar. It’s called active listening. Someone says something, a complaint, or a criticism, or they’re…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/okay-here-s-a-cheat-i-learned-in-a-leadership-seminar-it-s-called/) wildbow > [“I like to think people are stronger than they appear at first glance. Perhaps the same goes for cities as well?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/i-like-to-think-people-are-stronger-than-they-appear-at-first-glance/) wildbow > [“Looking at this stuff, hearing you describe it all, I’m starting to think that maybe we’ll destroy ourselves in the end. Infighting, stupidity, revenge,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/looking-at-this-stuff-hearing-you-describe-it-all-i-m-starting-to/) wildbow > [“A chronic failing of human beings, that we so rarely looked up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/a-chronic-failing-of-human-beings-that-we-so-rarely-looked-up/) wildbow > [“You want to neuter us,” Director Tagg said. “Stop us from policing the criminals who run this city.” “As my client put it, Director,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/you-want-to-neuter-us-director-tagg-said-stop-us-from-policing-the/) wildbow > [“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/ruins-places-built-up-by-man-painstaking-sometimes-over-centuries/) wildbow > [“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/everyone-likes-the-manipulative-assholes-after-they-ve-had-a-chance/) wildbow > [“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/on-this-violent-brutish-little-planet-of-ours-it-s-the-survivors-who/) wildbow > [“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/it-s-for-love-in-the-end-pettiest-of-all-pursuits-arrogance-greed/) wildbow > [“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/was-he-the-only-one-who-was-just-old-enough-to-speak-out-not-yet-so/) wildbow > [“My hands were paralyzed, one wrapped around the handle of the Hyena’s sword, spikes sticking through the flesh and out the back of hand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/my-hands-were-paralyzed-one-wrapped-around-the-handle-of-the-hyena-s/) wildbow > [“Then I think about how you went out, and I think… you know, it doesn’t balance out. One selfless deed, after all the shit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/then-i-think-about-how-you-went-out-and-i-think-you-know-it-doesn-t/) wildbow > [“When you’re in that position, sometimes the only people willing to extend those second chances to you are the people who need them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/when-you-re-in-that-position-sometimes-the-only-people-willing-to/) wildbow > [“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/according-to-studies-clinically-depressed-individuals-have-a-more/) wildbow > [“Counting coup?” Leister asked. He was the sole subordinate that Vantage had brought along. Rime, by contrast, had brought Usher and Arbiter from her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/counting-coup-leister-asked-he-was-the-sole-subordinate-that-vantage/) wildbow ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/know-listening/wildbow/#itemlist", "name": "1 Know Listening Quotes By wildbow", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Okay, here’s a cheat I learned in a leadership seminar. It’s called active listening. Someone says something, a complaint, or a criticism, or they’re excited about something that happened to them. For a lot of us, our instinct is to offer a solution, or expand on an idea, to fix or offer something. The key is to think about how they’re feeling, be receptive to that, and parrot it back to them. They just got a new car, and they’re happy about it? 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