Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.

So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.