Quotes About Listening

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.

They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

When we say Shut up, Gat, that isn't what we mean at all.

He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take things lightly, though he was always quick to laugh.

I shall take the liberty of praying for you." – "Glad to hear it. But who will listen to you?

Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

Entä ellet sanoisi mitään?" ehdotti dekaani. "Etten sanoisi mitään? Hirvittävää. Olette järjiltänne." "Puhutteko te sitten aina, jos sopii kysyä?" tiedusteli Chapman. Risley sanoi, että asia oli niin. "Ettekö koskaan väsy puhumiseen?" "En koskaan.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.