Quotes About Listening

The mark of a spiritual man or woman is a listening heart, not a lecturing tongue.

God has much to say to us, but we are often too busy to listen. Our minds have a tendency to get too occupied during the day, or sometimes we are too busy praying to God with our own agendas and have lost our listening ears. Dreams are one way God can "break in" and get something across to us that we might not be open to hearing during the day.

start these conversations with questions that seek understanding, not with accusations that seek submission

God will speak to us through creation if we'll only listen. If you feel like your time in front of books or listening to sermons has become stagnant, grab a coat, pick up a walking stick, and step outside into a school that never closes.

Just when we are most eager to make ourselves understood, we must strive to understand. Just when we seek to air our grievances, we must labor to comprehend another's hurt. Just when we want to point out the fallacies and abusive behavior of someone else, we must ruthlessly evaluate our own offensive attitudes and behaviors.

Sometimes we feel helpless when it comes to serving others because it seems that we can't do anything. We have all heard others say "Don't just stand there, do something." That's not always what people need. Often, they simply need someone to create space for them. In other words, "Don't just do something, stand there!

Never answer a question that hasn't been asked.

Though teachers pride themselves on having developed bionic hearing (the phrase "I heard that" is a common part of many teachers' vocabularies), sometimes it is better to conceal such super-human powers.

COMMUNICATION IS UNDERSTANDING, NOT DETERMINING WHO'S RIGHT.

this is a good rule of thumb: if you can't hear the congregation, you are probably too loud

I didn't listen to her because she was my mother & wouldn't know anything until I was much older.

Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.

Quiet Spaces We had gone far enough together to listen easily in the quiet spaces.

When you speak to someone, your vocal cords start a compression wave in the air that spreads out from your mouth until those compressions and rarefactions reach the listener's ear. There, they vibrate the hair-like structures in the ear, producing the sensation of hearing. But the link between you and the listener is the longitudinal waves that pass through the air.

The problem with today's world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

There are too many people in this world who want to be right, and too few who just want to know.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

When you want to comfort someone don't listen to their words; the words may be misleading or wrong…go straight to their heart, straight to their hurt. Their words may be pushing you away, but they still need comforting.

Colleagues at work found him talkative and articulate, but occasionally boring, and he lacked the sense to recognise when he had said enough (even when other people held newspapers in front of their faces) and went on talking as if the most profound interest had been shown.