Listening Quotes
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
"She looked, but she couldn’t see. She was wearing an emotional blindfold, and though she heard me say I love you, she just didn’t listen."
"Great earrings would be little speakers, so she can hear better. Or maybe she just wasn’t listening all those times I told her I loved her."
"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."
"Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of “I’m listening."
"I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed to picking up on political rhetoric."
"I want to spend less time talking about myself, and more time listening to what other people have to say about me."
"The strands of DNA are like strings, and it’s as if I am a walking guitar, a musical being whose vibration can be heard as love."
"I have two ears, so why can’t I listen to two things at once? A politician only has one mouth, yet doublespeaks all the time."
"The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'."
"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."
"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"When I hear your name, I involuntarily clench my butt cheeks. Is that love? I don’t know—I’m not Nicholas Sparks."
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear."
"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."
"Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen."
"Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening."
"Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty."
"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift."
"Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice."
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."
"The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it."
"It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias."
"Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live."
"7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important 1. Use their name.2. Express sincere gratitude.3. Do more listening than talking.4. Talk more about them than about you.5. Be authentically interested.6. Be sincere in your praise.7. Show you care."
"The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel."
"When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said."
"Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies."
"What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue."
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
"Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk."
"Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it."
"Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do."
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
"It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to."
"Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?"
"For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after."
"Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights"
"During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving."
"Those who have a listening heart can hear the song of silence."
"It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information."
Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
"The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know."
"Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree"
"If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy."
Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
"Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating."
"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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