“We like to do all the talking, but it's so important to listen.”

— David Motiuk

Source: Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of western Canada: Ad limina http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2017/03/31/ukrainian_catholic_bishops_of_western_canada_ad_limina_/en-1302402 (31 March 2017)

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Canadian bishop 1962

Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist

Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11

“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Listening is more important than talking.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We never took a vote in the Cabinet that I can remember and the most important of all the Prime Minister's functions is to give a firm lead in Cabinet so that decisions can be taken quickly. The Prime Minister musn't always listen to those who talk most.”

Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Address to the Oxford University Law Society (14 June 1957), quoted in The Times (15 June 1957), p. 4.
1950s

“Madonna: "Listen, all you do is talk about my sex life on your show, so now you don't want to talk about my sex life when I'm on your show?!"”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

On The Late Show with David Letterman (1994)

“God gave man two ears and one tongue so we could listen twice as much as we talk.”

Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975) King of Saudi Arabia

As per an article published in the New York Times in 1975, this was King Faisal's favorite quote. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/26/archives/faisal-rich-and-powerful-led-saudis-into-20th-century-and-to-arab.html

“We all have work to do, hard work, challenging work, and it will take time. We all need to talk and we all need to listen, not just about easy things, but about hard things, too. Relationships are hard. Relationships require work. So let’s begin that work. It is time to start seeing one another for who and what we really are. Peace, security, and understanding are worth the effort. Thank you for listening to me today.”

James Comey (1960) American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)

“We treat the children like children. It is the powerful with their war that treats them like they are adults. We talk to them. We teach them that the word, together with love and dignity, is what makes us human beings. We don't teach them how to fight. Well, yes, but only how to fight with their words. They learn. They know that the reason we are in all this is so that they won't have to do the same. And they talk and they also listen. Contrary to what you say, we teach the children that words don't kill but that yes it is possible to kill words and, along with them, the act of being human.”

Subcomandante Marcos (1957) Mexican activist

"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003

“If we say that I only get at the symptoms of his anger, that carries an important implication. But is this the way we do talk?”

J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher

Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 107.

“We like to do all the talking, but it's so important to listen.”

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