Welcome to our collection of inspiring Listening Quotes! Listening is a fundamental skill that plays a crucial role in effective communication and fostering deeper connections with others. Whether you’re looking for quotes to motivate you to become a better listener, or you simply appreciate the power of attentive listening, you’ve come to the right place. In this curated compilation, we have gathered insightful and thought-provoking quotes from various sources that celebrate the art of listening. These quotes can serve as reminders of the significance of active listening in our personal and professional lives.
Below, you’ll find a selection of quotes on the topic of listening that you can explore, share, and use as inspiration in your daily interactions. Whether you want to incorporate these quotes into your presentations, social media posts, or simply want to reflect on their wisdom, we hope you find them valuable in your journey to becoming a better listener. So, let’s dive into the world of listening quotes and discover the wisdom they hold. Enjoy!
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. Marlon Brando
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard Baruch
I’m all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod. Billy Collins
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. Susan Cain
When anyone tells me I can’t do anything… I’m just not listening any more. Florence Griffith Joyner
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it’s so petty. Imelda Marcos
With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. Kristen Wiig
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick. Billie Eilish
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Satyajit Ray
A good commentator is someone who obviously people like listening to, who gets the blend between description, entertainment and accuracy of conveying the event right. If you can do that in an interesting way, you are a good commentator. Jonathan Agnew
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it. George Carlin
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening. Franklin P. Jones
I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that’s very flattering. It’s cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I’m sitting on their iPods along with that stuff. Luke Bryan
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. Thomas Merton
I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all. Robin Soderling
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl A. Menninger
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It’s like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you’re in the street, listening to people, you’re forced to be in the service of your subject. Agnes Varda
I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once. Bob Uecker
When I heard ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel,’ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow. Lady Gaga
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. Henry Van Dyke
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak. Simon Sinek
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. Thich Nhat Hanh
The best way to persuade people is with your ears – by listening to them. Dean Rusk
The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Fran Lebowitz
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. George W. Bush
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers. Nina Hagen
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. Elena Kagan
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. Barry Goldwater
Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children’s listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance. It brings out the very best in the children as they work collaboratively with their peers and teachers. Sheila Hancock
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person. Alan Alda
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ’em over and over. Clint Eastwood
Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that we have to work at – it’s a relationship with sound. And yet, it’s a skill that none of us are taught. Julian Treasure
I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat. Yvonne Strahovski
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening – even though my parents music was way cool – to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that’s just where I came from. Slash
Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI
That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that. Jay-Z
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. Geronimo
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say… It’s the only way I can ‘chillax.’ Lapo Elkann
Even just listening to a sad country song, yeah, I can get pretty emotional. Jason Kelce
You probably can overcome what you’re going through from listening to my music. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon
If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Alice Cooper
My dad is Dominican, my mother’s Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you’re cool. Romeo Santos
Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness. Robin S. Sharma
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Buddha
When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them. Matthew McConaughey
I grew up listening to everybody. Lil Baby
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. Max Beerbohm
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. Zig Ziglar
Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they’ve seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music. Johnny Depp
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Marilyn vos Savant
I don’t feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of ‘Les Miserables,’ the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom. Corey Taylor
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads. Maynard James Keenan
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill
I’m a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one’s listening. I think it’s just a habit of mindfulness. Geraldine Brooks
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It’s like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you’re leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening. Kathleen Troia McFarland
When I put out ‘Video Games’ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens! Lana Del Rey
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. Tony Wilson
What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered – not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. Anita Hill
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. Daniel Dae Kim
It’s easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real. Gin Wigmore
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. Kelsey Grammer
People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it’s quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That’s why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents. Dominic Purcell
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. Charles Stanley
Classical music is for listening but rock and roll is to have fun with. Dave Clark
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning. Frances Arnold
You can’t fake listening. It shows. Raquel Welch
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. Henning Mankell
I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything. Lil Peep
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. Clara Schumann
At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there’s so many stories out there waiting to be told. It’s just a matter of who’s out there listening. Jose Antonio Vargas
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar. David Gilmour
If people are not listening to you as individuals, it’s always good to get together and make a stand for something. Tinie Tempah
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together. Colin Powell
Acting is reacting. You can’t react if you’re not paying attention, if you’re not listening. Reid Scott
I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I’d listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal… all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together. Juice Wrld
I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin’ the blues myself, but I’m writing them for other people who have a hard life. Chris Isaak
I’m saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet. Count Basie
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you. Phil McGraw
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. Henry Taylor
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design. Filippo Brunelleschi
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. Joan Didion
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers. Anne Burrell
It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it’s like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you’re silent and listening to an idiot. That’s an epitomizing idea, getting called ‘Nothing’ for your whole high school experience. Ezra Miller
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening. Emma Thompson
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. Alice Miller
I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience. Dianne Reeves
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. Andre Malraux
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then ‘just one more’ until your favourite track comes on. Robert Palmer
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell
