Quotes About Listening

I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.

I respect the fact that Donald Trump always listens. It's how he was in business. It's how he is as president.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Be teachable, you're not always right.

His practice was to listen noncommittally with half his mind, while he allowed the other half to lose itself in utterly unrelated , often deeply lonely musings. From the speaker's perspective it was like sticking a lance into something again and again with no result...

Si tu n'arrives pas à le dire avec des mots,n'en parle pas: ce n'est pas grave...

Cuando buscas sabiduría, la primera fase es el silencio, la segunda fase es la escucha, la tercera fase es el recuerdo, la cuarta es la práctica y la quinta la enseñanza".

I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me... my heart.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

Les oreilles des vieillards ne sont-elles pas de vrais coquillages constamment lavés par le flot et pleins de sagesse ?

For millions upon millions of years, feelings were the best algorithms in the world. Hence in the days of Confucius, of Muhammad or of Stalin, people should have listened to their feelings rather than to the teachings of Confucianism, Islam or communism. Yet

Humanist psychologists have pointed out that people in distress often don't want a quick fix – they want somebody to listen to them and sympathise with their fears and misgivings.

True prayer is a bursting forth of the soul to God. What can be more natural and more human than turning to God's listening presence with our thanks and our burdens?

Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it, listening to the lovely, liquid opening of the vowel, and the v that close and contained it.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.