Quotes About Listening

Never give advice until you are sure the other person wants it.

Sometimes we love best when we just listen. — Deb Vellines

you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.

If we don't meet people's felt needs, we will never meet their real needs.

live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall

They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.

I define spiritual direction as the interaction between one person, trained to listen for the movement of God, and another who desires to develop and cultivate an intimate, personal relationship with God.

No one ever sees the angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him.

Daaé seemed not to recover his strength until the summer, when the whole family went to stay at Perros-Guirec, in a far-away corner of Brittany, where the sea was of the same colour as in his own country. Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them.

So you were listening at the door?' 'Yes, because I love you.

There was an appalling silence between the three of them: the two who spoke and the shadow that listened, behind them.

anytime you truly listen to your hunger and fullness, you lose weight.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

For Solomon says, "When you have no audience, do not try to speak." Whereupon did this wise man say, "I see well that the common proverb is true, that 'Good counsel is most wanting when it is most needed.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Charles. Oh, your voices, your voices. Why don't the voices come to me? I am king, not you! Joan. They do come to you, but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it. But if you prayed from your heart and listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they stopped ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Remember, though, that any time a man's voice is stronger than God's voice, it stunts spiritual growth

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken.

I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you'll understand them better.

There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving.

When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.