Listening QuotesDo you want people to think you are smarter, friendlier and better looking? Follow these listening quotes for effective listening skills.
The EAR model is a useful tool for effective listening: Recent studies have shown that people who listen are thought to be more attractive, smarter and better looking than people who spend most of their time talking. The importance of listening cannot be stressed enough. As Igor Stravinsky quoted,"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also." Listening quotes from successful people tell us what it means to have effective listening skills. Teaching listening skills means we teach students to make meaningful comprehension of what we say. Master listeners also make sense of what is not being directly said. They know the importance of listening to what is inferred. " The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said," Improving Listening SkillsWhy do we work on improving listening skills? Listening quotes tell us throughout history that being a good listener has always been important. As Francois de La Rochefoucauld said back in the 1600s:"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." Or how about this one from Lee Iacocca: "I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions." “If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.” Active Listening SkillsOne of the buzz words is active listening skills. Active listening is certainly the key component in the importance of listening, but the part people forget the most is that active means you do something with the information. Otherwise, you are not better than this description by Robert Cooper, Executive EQ. "Many 'active listening' seminars are, in actuality, little more than a shallow theatrical exercise in appearing like you're paying attention to another person. The requirements: Lean forward, make eye contact, nod, grunt, or murmur to demonstrate you're awake and paying attention, and paraphrase something back every 30 seconds or so. As one executive I know wryly observed, many inhabitants of the local zoo could be trained to go through these motions, minus the paraphrasing." A personal favorite way of mine to improve effective listening skills is found in a quote from Will Rogers: More Listening QuotesDaniel Barenboim Pope John XXIII Amish School Saying John Ruskin Ann Landers Hermann Hesse Kenneth A. Wells James Nathan Miller Po Bronson “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.” Albert Einstein listening quotes Return to Top: Listening Quotes
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