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Quotes About Listening

I'd say the key to a good relationship is communication .
~ Mandy Moore
It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
~ Mark Nepo
With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.
~ John de Ruiter
Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...
~ Avijeet Das
A relationship is based on communication.
~ John Cena
It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
~ Bede Griffiths
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
~ Khalil Gibran
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
~ Haniel Long
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
~ John Morley
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
~ Bryant McGill
I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.
~ Laverne Cox
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.
~ John Baldoni
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.
~ Gautama Buddha
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.
~ Deborah Tannen
When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.
~ Caroline Myss
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.
~ Rick Warren
Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
~ Conn Iggulden
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
~ Penn Jillette
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
~ Joseph Joubert