HRMusing

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McClosky

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein

“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation” – Chinese Proverb

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” – Andre Gide

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.” Kenneth Wells

Silence is a source of great strength.” – Lao Tzu

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” -  Ralph Nichols

“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”- Robert Greenleaf

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”- Stephen R. Covey

“Wag More….Bark Less” - sign on a tree at the dog park

I’m Listening….