Quotes About Listening

The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire.

I'm aware that different people like to listen to music in different ways. But, I'm not going on the internet to listen to demos. The car is the only place for the amateur gong show.

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.... But if you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride.

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

Listen carefully to the advice you give to others. because this counsel is really meant for you.

Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men who have titles of power but no authority to exercise it.

Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Being President is like being the groundskeeper in a cemetery: there are a lot of people under you, but none of them are listening.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think–in a deeper voice.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

2-1-10: A languid Sunday, afternoon turned into evening, evening into night, night into morning. 'I just want to enjoy your nextness and nearness,' O says. He puts his ear to my chest and listens to my heart and counts the beats. 'Sixty-two,' he says with a satisfied smile, and I can't imagine anything more intimate.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

Occasionally, we go through times when we feel God is not speaking to us. While that may be so, most of the time He has simply changed His language, and He expects us to adjust with Him.

doing God's will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.

The four keys to discovering God's will are the following: 1. Learning To Listen. 2. Learning To Trust. 3. Staying On Course. 4. U-Turns Allowed.

Ask God and be ready to listen.

I've sat behind a microphone and listened for decades as Americans learned to stop talking with each other and start shouting instead. No discussions, just 'socialist' or 'fascist' or 'feminazi' or 'bigot' or whatever. So here's what I want to say, and I think it's the one thing no one ever says any more in our public life: I think you're wrong, but you may be right .

the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.

If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.