Browsing Quotes With Tag: listening (5)
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What air is to the lungs, compassionate listening is to the soul.
Compassionate Listening:
The type of listening that you start to feel what they feel
and see things as they see things.Speaker: Hank SmithSource: Trust Matters--How to Be Trusted, BYU Ed Week 2012Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
Speaker: James Nathan MillerPosted: 12 Jan 2010 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Speaker: Wilson MiznerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to – really listened to – is the second-best thing in the world.”
“What’s the first best thing?”
“Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power.”
“Oh, is it?” I asked, laughing. “What about sex?”
“No. Apart from biology, sex is all about power. That’s why it’s such a rush.”
I laughed again.
“And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power.”
“They’re wrong,” she said with terse finality. “Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we fear it so much.”Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!