It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William Bernbach

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen.
William Bernbach

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.
Stephen Colbert

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
Stella Adler

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
Ritchie Blackmore

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
Charles Stanley

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
Bill Hicks