Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ---Winston Churchill
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ---Doug Larson
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ---James Baldwin
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ---Tomy Smothers
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities. I listen to them and they go away delighted. ---Andre Gide
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ----Charles C. Finn
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ---Epictetus
Don't worry that children never listen to you;
worry that they are always watching you . ---Robert Fulghum
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ---Peter F. Drucker