Calvin Coolidge You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening. Source Unknown 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. Don't explain or justify.
Good talk rises upon much discipline.
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it. The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.