listening quotes

Hubert Humphrey: 

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Margaret J. Wheatley: 

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Mark Nepo: 

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Stephen Covey: 

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.