Quotes About Listening

I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, but underneath anything I write one can hear the percussive sound of their heartbeats. If one has to pick one kind of pedagogy over all others, I pick listening. It breaks down prejudices and stereotypes; it widens self-imposed limits; it takes one into another's life, her hard times and, if there is any, her joy too.

There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.

Oh, that you would come and begin simply to listen to His Word and to ask only the one question: Does He really mean that I should abide in Him? The answer His Word gives is so simple and so sure: By His almighty grace you now are in Him; that same almighty grace will indeed enable you to abide in Him. By faith you became partakers of the initial grace; by that same faith you can enjoy the continuous grace of abiding in Him.

Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God.

Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part.

Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to this call.

We are deaf to what life brings us.

them. The only trouble is that it could take a while because I'm actually feeling pretty healthy. I hear

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Entrega al mar tu aliento. Escucha a la mañana, su ecuación de misterios.

Él no escucharía sus palabras. Dudaba también de que fuera a escuchar su silencio.

You never answered back?

Truman Capote said that he learned how to write a story not from reading but from sitting on his aunts' front porch in Alabama and listening to them tell stories. This was my earliest education in the art of storytelling too.

Best friends have to talk a lot.

If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.

There is one more aspect to a true partnership that's worth mentioning: executives who hold themselves aloof from their associates, who won't listen to their associates when they have a problem, can never be true partners with them.

If I'm going to fly around all over the country telling these folks they're my partners, I sure owe it to them to at least hear them out when they're upset about something.

Our message became "Sure, we are a nonunion company, but we think we are stronger because of it. And because you are our partner, we have an open door, and we listen to you, and together we can work out our problems.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

great leader knows the value of holding his own counsel and listening. He doesn't reveal what he's thinking until he knows the minds of those around him. "How so, Dabney?

cosmic puppeteer might be listening

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: