“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Alluding to the E. F. Hutton commercial of the 1980s, in reference to his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984. A sharp tongue can still draw victim's blood, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Connelley, Joel, February 3, 1986, December 8, 2009 http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1986/8601030327.asp,
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
George Wallace (1919–1998) 45th Governor of Alabama
Attributed in George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.
Attributed
“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“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)
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10
“I only talk from my heart so open yours when you listening”
Blu (1983) American rapper and music producer
The World Is (Below the Heavens)
Below the Heavens (2007)
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies
"People".
Social Studies (1981)