Quotes About Listening

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda

Learn when's a good time to shut up

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.