Communication Quote by Karen Armstrong

“Listening isn't just about being quiet. It's about listening to what is said, what is unsaid, and what is meant with your eyes, ears…

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions

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

— Andrew Miller

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…

— M. Scott Peck

“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing”

— Julia Heywood

“live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things…

— Gary Paulsen

Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

— Michael Shurtleff

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches,…

— Henri Nouwen

“The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.”

— Colette Ruland Parrino

“The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.”

— Daniel Goleman

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

“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. ”

— Michael P Nichols

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really…

— Damon Dash