Quotes About Listening

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

MOTHER TERESA: Boy, one must participate in one's own salvation. In order to hear, one must be willing to listen.

To get a relationship out of the pits, talk with the other person.

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes, clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

2. Then (something else we usually forget) "listen for the response." It helps, says Bede, to "actively listen." To turn over every stone in your search for clues to the response. These responses usually come in subtle ways—through

You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

We need not be afraid of silence; sometimes it can help us listen to our precious inner messages.

The phone she left behind in its foggy balloon is just recording the empty aluminum canoe now, and one blurry corner of the little cooler. But it's listening in its muted way. What it hears is the front part of Lotte's scream. She doesn't get to finish it.

nodded but still didn't speak.

You don't have to read twelve books to learn what wives need from their husbands. Just walk up and ask her.

Praying with an unrepentant heart. The psalmist realized, "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer" (Psalm 66:18–19 NIV). Clinging to sin and stiff-arming God makes God stiff-arm us. If you hold on to sin and refuse to confess it, you cannot take full hold on God.

My own hearing has become careful and algebraic.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.