Quotes About Listening

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

Learn to keep close to [Jesus], to listen to His voice, and follow Him.

When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies... listening in the silence for what He has to say to us.

Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

In order to console, there is no need to say much. It is enough to listen, to understand, to love. PAUL TOURNIER

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life. And then politics is about listening and it's about leading. You know, you've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

The single greatest people skill is a highly-developed and authentic interest in the other person.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

La libertad de expresión lleva consigo cierta libertad para escuchar

I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to "have it all"?

So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as a feeling rather than a sound. You will learn, as I have learned, to "listen" for that voice that is felt rather than heard.