Listener

The secret of influencing people lies not so much in being a good talker as in being a good listener.

Be a good listener.

He is a good listener but a poor speaker.

In Soviet Russia, radio listens to the listener!

Tom is a good listener.

What is music for you, listener, and for you, performer?

You're a good listener.

I'm a good listener.

You're a really bad listener.

Be a good listener!

[…] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]

And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.

Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.