Quotes About Listening

Everybody goes to mass, buy nobody pays attention to the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Gli stolti parlano, i codardi tacciono, i saggi ascoltano

Uma história é, em definitivo uma conversa entre quem narra e quem escuta, e um narrador só pode contar até onde vai a sua perícia, e um leitor, só pode ler até onde está escrito em sua alma.

Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.

Daily I live with [one] fear--a healthy fear if there is such a thing. [It is] that I will miss something God has for me in this life. And it is mind-expanding to contemplate all that He wants me to have. I don't want to be robbed of even one of God's riches by not taking time to let Him invade my life. By not listening to what He is telling me.

Naciste sabiendo la verdad. Para conectar con ella empieza por escuchar tu voz interior.

A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?

We were going to talk, she whispered. We are talkin', darlin'. We'll use words when necessary, he said softly.

What would Betsy tell Marty about poor

Hearts can be mended and problems fixed, but only if the lines of communication are open

Jesus, you talk too much.

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

SWAT team leader Luke Palmer set up a parabolic mic facing the house and they listened for voices, hoping to count and place everyone inside.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested.

Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, why did you say that? What do you really think?

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Least said soonest meanded

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom.

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. You would have thought that since they lived together twenty-four hours a day they would've said all they could think of to say, but I could hear one offer the other a comment every now and then. This calm, intermittent dialogue seemed companionable, and I went into kind of a trance sitting on the end of that bed.