Quotes About Listening

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

Parte da nossa estupidez é a incontinência verbal, a constante ejaculação de palavras – quando a verdadeira sabedoria seria fazer silêncio, parar os pensamentos, para ouvir a pregação das estrelas, dos peixes, das aves, das plantas.

O ato de ouvir exige humildade de quem ouve. E a humildade está nisso: saber, não com a cabeça, mas com o coração, que é possível que o outro veja mundos que nós não vemos.

Today, how do we intend to hear the heartbeat of God? What will we do to make it possible for us to hear God's comforting, peacegiving, and guiding voice? Rueben P. Job

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

His shortcoming, a fatal one, was his arrogance: he was not an overt bully, and he listened carefully while assessing a situation, but he was right about everything, contemptuous of those who crossed him and dismissive of their arguments. People like him tend not to have friends: friends serve only to make the tough decisions so much harder.

Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.

A Quiet Mind Lord, give me a quiet mind, That I might listen; A gentle tone of voice, That I might comfort others; A sound and healthy body, That I might share In the joy of walking And leaping and running; And a good sense of direction So I might know just where I'm going!

Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.

But wisdom is not got through shouting-matches within one generation.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

You listen well and that makes you a good keeper of stories. I am sure that all my memories are safe with you" -Baba

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Aprender a escuchar al cuerpo, a darle descanso y a respetarlo como un lugar en el que Dios nos hace conocer su presencia, se convierte entonces en una importante disciplina para el peregrino espiritual.

The purpose of journeying together in spiritual friendship and spiritual community (whether there are just two of you or whether you are in a small group) is to listen to one another's desire for God, to nurture that desire in each other and to support one another in seeking a way of life that is consistent with that desire.

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

I used to think that after the war I would have something of interest and significance to tell. A contribution. But people didn't want to hear about it, or if they did listen, it was in a certain pose, an attitude assumed for this special occasion; it was not a partners in a conversation, but as if I had imposed on them and they were graciously indulging me.

Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I sometimes stood for long moments listening to some bird telling me of the strangeness of myself

Doesn't take much skill to stay married. Just some patience and the common sense to know when to shut up and listen.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.