1. "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." --Doug Larson
  2. "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." --Bryant H. McGill
  3. "If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk." --Robert Baden-Powell
  4. "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. Menniger
  5. "Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking." --Bernard Baruch
  6. "Listening is being able to be changed by the other person." --Alan Alda
  7. "Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening." --Jeanette Winterson
  8. "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
  9. "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said" --Peter Drucker
  10. "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." --Ernest Hemingway
  11. "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." --Stephen R. Covey
  12. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer." --Ed Cunningham
  13. "The art of conversation lies in listening." --Malcom Forbes
  14. "You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time." --M. Scott Peck
  15. "We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less." --Diogenes