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. Instead, listen, really listen, to what children have to say. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is.
Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in.
Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind s hearing to your ears natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning. Every head is a world. If you have additional quotations you would like to see added to this page, please e-mail them to the webmaster .