Quotes About Listening

He awakens Me each morning; He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed, Isaiah 50:4

For just a moment, I don't want you to think about how far you have to go. I just want you to think about how far you've come as I pray Psalm 32:7 over you: "May God be your hiding place; may He protect you from trouble, and may He incline your spiritual ears to listen carefully while He surrounds you with joyful songs of deliverance.

If you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. Jeremiah 13:17

He replied to them, "My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God. "Luke 8:21

My life is down in the dust; give me life through Your word. I told You about my life, and You listened to me. Psalm 119:25–26

Listen, my sons, to a father's discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding. Proverbs 4:1

link: "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (KJV). God's direction for our lives will also escape us without the Word of God as "a lamp unto our

After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Luke 2:46

This is the confidence we have before Him: whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 John 5:14

Women will tell you, 80 percent of the time - if you listen - what is wrong with them. And what frustrates me, as a physician who takes care of a lot of women with autoimmune diseases, is that women have to request and find a physician... who will actually take their complaints seriously and investigate.

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

It's kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don't want to look back and resent not being heard.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

New Jersey has faced its own history of citizens demanding change and federal engagement in programs to address the needs of our community. We have also seen the success of law enforcement in our state when members work to listen to our communities and build a brighter future alongside our residents.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.