Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch
The road to the heart is the ear. Voltaire
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. Wilson Mizner
Conversation in the United States is a competitive exercise in which the first person to draw a breath is declared the listener. Nathan Miller
It is a secret known to but few of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. Sir Richard Steele
No one ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge
Everybody wants to talk, few want to think, and nobody wants to listen. no attribution
