Quotes About Listening

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying "I love you" is being a receptive listener.

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

Qué aporta la literatua: escuchar una voz humana.

I'm so busy listening to the heart that I don't even hear when somebody asks me to pass the salt.

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she didn't want to listen to.

Peitsin pää ta rinnale, sulesin silma, kuulasin — mida? — ei tea. Võib olla, iseenese, võib olla, tema, võib olla, kogu maailma südametukset.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.

Do they talk?" Knox asked. "The wooden people?" "I have never heard them speak," Patton said. "Nor the trees. I'm not sure how well they hear, either. Pantomime seems to help them understand.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen . It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.

You should try not to talk so much, friend," he suggested. "You'll sound far less stupid that way.

Listen to the stars.

I underclock conversations. If I focus my full efforts, it takes you several minutes in relative time to speak a single syllable.

I figure the Blackthorn has studied every military text known to man," he said. "And we could do worse for a general than the person who likely read 'em to him. Particularly if she's willing to listen to a little sense. That's more than I can say for some highlords I've followed.

You have good ideas, Elend Venture," Tindwyl said. "Regal ideas. However, you are not a king. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

Listening to this speech, he was half inclined to string himself up, which was really disturbing, since he was generally suicidal only in the mornings.

It wouldn't be polite for me to interrupt," Notum said. "Please continue your insane rant.