“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

“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

“Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

“If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
We just wrote it like that”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

“That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

““Peewee!” I said sharply. “You're not listening.”
“What were you doing talking,” she answered reasonably, “when I wasn’t listening?””

Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies

“If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em … even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.”

Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist