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Quotes About Listening

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
~ Sherry Turkle
Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.
~ Lonni Collins Pratt
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
~ Pauline Oliveros
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
~ Ani DiFranco
We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.
~ Rachel Held Evans
More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
~ Pat Metheny
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
~ Charles Stanley
God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me
~ Fabio Capello
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
~ Ross Perot
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~ Lillian Smith
If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.
~ John C. Maxwell
Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.
~ Winkie Pratney
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
~ James Russell Lowell
When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.
~ Cynthia Lord
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.
~ Mark Kozelek
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
~ Abraham Lincoln
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
~ Erik Qualman
Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.
~ Gary Rydstrom