Attention Quote by Gordon Hempton

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

— Michael Nichols

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the…

— Mark Nepo

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and…

— Henri Nouwen

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

— Andrew Miller

When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to…

— Steven Spielberg

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really…

— Mark Nepo

True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just…

— T. Thorn Coyle

Listening is the essence of anything.

— David Lyons

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges…

— Brenda Ueland

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people…

— Robert C. Murphy