Inspirational Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

— Yogi Berra

“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take…

— E. Lockhart

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

— Richard Darman

“The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.”

— Michael Wolff

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

— Oscar Wilde

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

— John Steinbeck

“He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.”

— Wendell Berry

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how…

— Michael Wolff

“I said it unto him who isn’t, and he wisely said nothing. Sometimes saying nothing is saying more than enough.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He was more interested in listening and gathering information than in asserting his opinion or dominating a conversation. He was also widely admired; when…

— Susan Cain