Listen if you want to be heard

Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.

I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

إن الإستماع فن من الفنون. عندما يتكلم الرجل أنتبه إلى صوته لأعرف هل هو صادق فيما يقوله

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

Il faut de l'esprit pour bien parler, de l'intelligence suffit pour bien écouter.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

We must listen to poets.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

They listen to hear, not respond. While listening to other people speak, they focus on what is being said, not how they are going to respond. This is also known as the meta practice of “holding space.

The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.