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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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