Behaviour Quote by Stephen Covey

“When I say empathic listening, I mean listening with intent to understand. I mean seeking first to understand, to really understand. It’s an entirely…

— Stephen R. Covey

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings,…

— Stephen Covey

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

— Bill Drayton

“Empathetic listening is a finely tuned ability to go beyond words to discover the thoughts and feelings which live beneath a person’s surface presentation.”

— Susan C. Young

“Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.”

— Susan C. Young

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components…

— Carl Rogers

“Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.”

— Pearl Zhu

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

— Stephen Covey

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one…

— Carl Rogers

“Empathy is not listening to someone in order to advise, counsel, reply, refute, fix, judge, solve, change, agree, disagree, or to figure the person…

— Michael Simpson

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're…

— Stephen Covey

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and…

— Heinz Kohut