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Quotes About Listening

Love begins with listening.
~ Fred Rogers
Love that cares, listens.
~ Paul Tillich
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
~ Sam Heughan
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
~ Rumi
I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
~ Eric Clapton
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
~ Nicholas Sparks
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
~ John Fowles
Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.
~ Robert Tisserand
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it
~ Timothy Keller
I love good, loud speakers.
~ Brian Eno
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
~ M. Scott Peck
Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on
~ Andy Townsend
Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
~ Christie Brinkley
I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
~ Kevin Keegan
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.
~ Bo Sanchez
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.
~ Joy Harjo
Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.
~ Jan Hellriegel
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]
~ Nhat Hanh
One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
~ Allison Janney