Quotes About Listening

In Scripture, obedience is heavily relational. It's about allegiance and learning to share God's mind. Even the word for obedience comes from a root that indicates "to hear." Only someone who is in relationship with God and is listening to him can obey.

For twenty years good old Sami has cut my hair, but from day to day he says less and less. I've had enough of his silence. A barber should tell stories better than the radio.

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with the world – we will be as one. What you have been able to do with your Modoc is what man has been seeking for a long time. To communicate with nature through animals.

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Authority, of course, is primarily service, but service of a very particular kind; it involves listening, consulting, and reaching consensus if possible, but also, when necessary, correcting, admonishing, rebuking, and making tough decisions even when there isn't consensus.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Indians are better speakers than listeners

Everybody listens to Nobody!

Valmiki sat in the lotus posture with his eyes shut, to listen to the tale of a human prince who was as immaculate as the stars.

Successful people are not afraid to ask themselves tough questions and then go deep to get the answers. Unsuccessful people avoid the tough questions, and if they come across one, either they won't answer it or they avoid it. Of course, it's not enough to pose good questions, which is why successful people are also good listeners. Most people tend to be so busy formulating their next statement that they hear very little of what is said to them.

Please, you will do it anyway. When you hear to do a merciful thing, that is always at least a whisper from the heart of HaShem. Obedience will strengthen the ears of your spirit.

Let other people finish their sentences when they're talking.

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

Don't finish someone's sentences. And talking louder or faster doesn't make your idea any better.

Elderly people reach out and hold the hand of people who speak to them. Imagine holding hands while we argue. Our life will be different.

One of the greatest pleasures of music is to make other people listen to it; to feel, for just a moment, a tiny part of an ideal world in which everything is good, beautiful, harmony, love.