Quotes About Listening

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

It's the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.