Active Quote by Madeleine Albright

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

— Simon Sinek

“The Physical Language of Listening Active listening is a physical process which transcends simply hearing. Your body language speaks on your behalf as to…

— Susan C. Young

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content…

— Richard Carlson

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

— Nikki Giovanni

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

— Judith Martin

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

— Seth Godin

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready…

— Jean Stapleton

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

— Ken Robinson

“Active listening is not only a matter of making yourself available to hear someone talk, but it is showing the sender, physically, that you…

— Susan C. Young

It's really rude to talk while I'm interrupting.

— Anonymous

Attend to people who show themselves more ready to hear than to speak.

— Vikrant Parsai