It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.
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You need to become a good listener. VERY VERY important. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.
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James 1:25:
But those who look intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continue in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do.
(NIV)
But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).
(AMP)
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(KJV)
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after awhile he gets to know something.
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A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
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It is not the speaker who controls communication, but the listener.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
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James 1:19:
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
(NIV)
Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry.
(AMP)
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(KJV)
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It takes a great man to be a good listener
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To the good listener, half a word is enough.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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