Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Ernest Hemingway501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them.”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 239
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972) the recording of his appearance at Carnegie Hall.
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that's the problem.”
Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Context: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
Context: And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.