Quotes About Listening

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

It is irritating when someone talking to me, When she is not talking

Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Say what you want about the deaf.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.

When I see that people want to listen to me and when I feel that they are supporting the goals that I am committed to, then I am very pleased.