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Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. — Plautus

Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are. — Michael Nichols

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak. — Mahatma Gandhi

I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners — Nas

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it. — Robert Glasper

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison

It's also important for companies to groom listeners — Susan Cain

Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear. — Debasish Mridha

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. — David Sedaris

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. — Mignon McLaughlin

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest. — Charlene Li

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop. — Jeremy Robinson

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated. — Bernard Holland

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger — Wes Fesler

Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at. — Philip Pullman

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners. — Carl Orr

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners. — William C. Bryant

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing. — Jerry Speyer

One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners. — Donnie Simpson

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. — John Powell

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener. — Arlene Francis

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone. — Charles R. Swindoll

What bores the listener bores the speaker too. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners. — Mary Kay Ash

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door. — Corrie Ten Boom

The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners, — Jonathan Franzen

Talkers are seldom wiser than listeners. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are no uninteresting people, only disinterested listeners! — Sean McPheat

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. — Alexander Osterwalder

The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart. — Marie Sabillo

Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners. — Frans De Waal

My parents are great listeners
Which is why I never tell them anything — Sonya Sones

The Constitution guarantees free speech, but it doesn't guarantee listeners. — John C. Maxwell

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. — John Hall

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners. — Robin Hobb

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful. — Leonard Mlodinow

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows. — Helen Keller

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn

When you speak, always remember that God is one of your listeners. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes. — Alex Adams

What else is soul but a listener? — William H Gass

Lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. — Hermann Hesse

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. — Erma Bombeck

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. — Andy Wilkinson

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds. — Erin McKeown

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me. — Edwidge Danticat

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media. — Darrell Issa

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. — Andrew Cuomo

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too. — George W. Bush

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean De La Fontaine

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. — Marian McPartland

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. — John Ray

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Kingsley Amis

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners. — Christopher Lee

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going. — Ravi Shankar

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?' — Jim Rohn

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all. — Cornelia Funke

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers. — Arnold Schoenberg

Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans. — Peter Guber

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener — Richard Branson

The ears are better listeners than the tongue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space. — Nikhil Banerjee

Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation. — Sunday Adelaja

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape. — Tamsin Greig

I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners. — Omar Sy

The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying. — Ilka Chase

The best listeners listen between the lines. — Nina Malkin

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person. — Kevin Stirtz

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points. — Gia Coppola

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen. — Ronnie Apteker

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. — La Monte Young

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen. — Charles Dickens

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners. — Pat Metheny

A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world. (Peter Nimble) — Jonathan Auxier

Radio is dumb until the listener hears what radio says — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Festus, you're such a great listener. — Maria Kanellis

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it. — Robert Plant

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. — Dale Carnegie

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. — Madeleine Albright

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. — Natasha Bedingfield

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat. — Jane Fonda

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it. — Rush Limbaugh

A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners. — Naa Shalman

Inspiring communicators always expect a lot from their listeners. — John C. Maxwell

Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships. — Lee Ellis

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. — Paul Fleischman

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality. — Patty Griffin

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists. — Susan RoAne

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. — Christine Pelosi

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces. — Franz Grillparzer

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. — Dale Carnegie

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters. — Lawrence Welk