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Listening is the founding skill for all
communication. If you listen first to others they will listen to you.
Listening is also great source of ideas. Other people throw away great
ideas every day, either because they do not
recognize them as such, or perhaps because they lack the
courage to take them further.
See also
attention,
collaboration,
communication*, intuition,
learning, memory,
seeing, thinking,
understanding*, wisdom
Quotes
‘I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am
satisfied; then, in my head, I begin to elaborate the work in its breadth, its
narrowness, its height, its depth…I hear and see the image in front of me from
every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down
remains.’
— Ludwig van Beethoven
‘People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have
merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity
on a very broad scale.’
— James Champy
‘The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory
state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other
half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way,
had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily
disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely
away.’
— Aaron Copeland
‘Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to
listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly
dependable innovation
opportunity.’
— Peter F. Drucker
‘Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why.
Then do it.’
— Robert Heinlein
‘I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most
people never listen.’
— Ernest Hemingway
‘The majority of people have no understanding of the things with
which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they
have any right knowledge of them, although to
themselves they seem to have.’
— Heraclitus
‘Those who hear and do not understand
are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."’
— Heraclitus
‘I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep
listening in a sort of inside silence ‘til something clicks and I feel a right
answer.’
— Conrad Hilton
‘If you don’t understand a problem, then explain it to an audience and listen
to yourself.’
— Tom Hirshfield
‘It is the province of knowledge
to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.’
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
‘You do not even have to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and
solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has not
choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.’
— Franz Kafka
‘Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and
listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been
able to guess.’
— Margaret Mead
‘Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at
once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in
a pleasing, lively dream.’
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers.’
— Friedrich Nietzsche
‘If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding,
you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.’
— Harold Sherman
‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however
measured or far away.’
— Henry David Thoreau
‘It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak, and another to hear.’
— Henry David Thoreau
‘Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases
the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.’
— Mark Twain
‘If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means
paint, and that voice will be silenced.’
— Vincent Van Gogh
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