Quotes About Listening

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.

You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn't listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.

There are men who cannot hear animals, he said. And then there are men who cannot hear anything at all.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. **About the mind