A Quote by Mary Kay Ash

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

Mary Kay Ash

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Mary Kay Ash
American - Businesswoman
May 12, 1918 - November 22, 2001

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

Lauren Child

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Zeno of Citium

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.

Josh Bowman

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

Hafez

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

Stephen Fry

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Ken Blanchard

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

Terri Farley

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

Nick Vujicic

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Quincy Jones

I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

Johnny Reid

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Leo Rosten

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

Eric Linklater

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

Garth Stein

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.

Tibor Fischer

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