
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
"People".
Social Studies (1981)
Reden ist uns ein Bedürfnis, Zuhören ist eine Kunst.
According to http://falschzitate.blogspot.de/2017/04/reden-ist-uns-ein-bedurfnis-zuhoren-ist.html pure invention.
Misattributed
Reden ist uns ein Bedürfnis, Zuhören ist eine Kunst.
Misattributed
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
"People".
Social Studies (1981)
“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s
“Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.”
Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler
“What strange arts necessity finds out.”
Venus, Act I, scene i, line 169
Dido (c. 1586)
“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”
La nécessité est, d’ailleurs, de tous les maîtres, celui qu’on écoute le plus et qui enseigne le mieux.
Part I, ch. XVII
The Mysterious Island (1874)
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.”
Letter One (17 February 1903)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
“Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Listening is more important than talking.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“Turner did not talk well, and never talked of his own art, or of the art of others.”
Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence