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Quotes About Listening

I always listen to you, Joy. It's become one of the greatest pleasures of my life." -Caleb McClintock
~ Fayrene Preston
Si deseas cruzar este mundo llevando a otra persona del brazo, tendrás que escucharla hasta el fin.
~ Felisberto Hernández
Have a series of questions handy to shoot out when they grind to a halt. Then focus like mad on what your instinct and your intuition is telling you – as well as your ears. As
~ Felix Dennis
Wisdom begins in listening; listening begins in silence; silence is rooted in solitude.
~ Fenton Johnson
Uno sbaglio della natura. Perché così come abbiamo le palpebre per smettere di vedere quando non ne abbiamo voglia, dovremmo poter disporre di due saracinesche nel canale auditivo. Le chiudiamo e non dovremmo più sentire quello che non vogliamo sentire.
~ Fernando Aramburu
Yo, por ejemplo, nunca uso el verbo «escuchar», que significa oír con atención. ¿Y por qué? Porque no me gusta, porque no lo necesito, porque está de moda. A mí con «oír» me basta porque me sirve tanto para un trueno como para un discurso. Si el presidente escucha un trueno, yo lo oigo. El presidente es un atropellador del idioma, un ignorante, un abusivo, un vivo: yo ya estoy muerto.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones.
~ Fijian Proverb
Nobody ever talked to me the way he did. But I could have listened to his voice forever, no matter what he spoke of.
~ Fiona Mountain
you cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.
~ Fiona Wood
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
~ Flann O'Brien
We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only when we are alone. . . For many women, the first choice, then, is to give ourselves the necessary time and space in which to renew our acquaintance with our lost voice, to learn to recognize it, and to rejoice as we hear it express our truth.
~ Florence Falk
For the Hearing My ears are God's ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.
~ Forrest Carter
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.
~ Fr. Thomas Dubay
Contar una aventura no es el objetivo; los personajes ayudan a escuchar a otro, que quizá sea mi hermano, mi prójimo, mi amigo, mi ancestro, mi doble.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
~ Fran Lebowitz
He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying.
~ Francois Lelord
Listening is loving
~ Francois Lelord
Zouelle had forgotten how tiring it was listening to a Neverfell at full pace, like being bludgeoned with exclamation marks.
~ Frances Hardinge
As usual, his expression was distracted but intense, as if listening to the world whispering something that riled him.
~ Frances Hardinge
We first knew something was up when the construction chief pulled out a stethoscope and started listening to the wall.
~ Billy Crystal
Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders.
~ Billy Graham
A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.
~ Billy Graham
God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above the noisy din of earth's confusion.
~ Billy Graham