Is Anybody Listening, I Mean Really Listening? "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway. Often when a misunderstanding occurs, it is attributed to a lack of communication, which most of the time implies that whoever was delivering the message did not do an effective job. But what about the other side, the listener? Listening is important. It is the communication skill most often …showed first 75 words of 1418 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1418 total…the most fundamental and powerful skill we can have. When a person is willing to stop talking or thinking and begin to really listen to other people, all of our interactions will become easier, and our communication problems are all but eliminated. Bibliography Works Cited Barker, Larry L. and Gaut, Deborah A.. Communication. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. Curtis, D. B., Floyd, J. J., and Winsor, J. L. Business and Professional Communication. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.