Quotes About Listening

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.

Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

People love to talk but hate to listen.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

When you want someone to tell you something—don't ask, tell it wrong.

The surefire way to get someone to tell you something you want to know isn't to ask them about it. What you do is start telling the story yourself, say what you think happened, and say it wrong. People may not want to discuss things, but they will correct you, every time.

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

waiting for him to start the conversation.

That's what's happening if you're getting all your news from one place. If you stop listening to someone the second you hear a word or phrase you've been taught belongs to the enemy, like "environment" or "job creators," that's what you're doing.

He didn't want to say the word alive. And not just because it seemed so silly, putting that on an official record, but also because, alone in his cabin, it suddenly felt like the ship was listening. He didn't want it to hear him.

Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.

A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird?

Why do we go on listening to economic prophets when they plainly know no more about the future than you or I?

Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He's listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person's troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands.

Do this for someone. Ask someone to tell you his—or her—story. Resist the urge to interrupt or correct. Turn off the television. Log off from the internet. Close your laptop; silence your cell phone. Give the rarest of gifts: your full attention.

Accept teaching from his mouth, and keep his words in your heart. [ Job 22:22 NCV ]

God speaks all languages—including yours. What language is God speaking to you?