Quotes About Listening

I think the most frustrating thing is when people... sometimes people are a bit lazy and they don't listen to something, and they'll just say you sound like something else and it's quite clear that you don't, I think that's frustrating.

My heart's desire is that people will listen to the Lord and his leading and really dive into the fullness of what He's called them to do, whatever that looks like.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

He had a great deal to think of if he was to get the hang of – he was certainly not going to interfere with – the world and having to listen to conversations that were mostly moral apophthegms had tired him. He got too many at too short intervals.

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.

If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.

girl rattled on in her good-tempered, homely way, Mary began to notice what she was saying.

And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Henry was right, we should have listened to him, Dad would sob.

But he'd made the mistake of listening, just a little, to the seductive whispers of that rotten, misleading bastard called Hope.

my best friend's problems, but I can't

Anne tells him that his silence is, in a way, like her chatter.

I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.

She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.

Silence did not always mean indifference

He was writing on men's hearts through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But few listened. Few leaned in and sought out God's will for their lives.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. C. S. LEWIS

He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.

Paul studied the pilgrims around him, suddenly envious of their intentness, their air of listening to truths he could not hear. It seemed to him that they gained something here which was denied to him, something mysteriously healing.

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?

Pour bien gouverner, il faut apprendre le langage du monde qui est le vôtre et qui est différent sur chaque monde. [...] Elle voulait parler du langage des rochers et des choses vivantes, ce langage que l'on ne peut entendre avec ses seules oreilles.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.