Quotes About Listening

Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame.

If she also heard Mrs. Glendoveer's voice warning her against this ill-advised adventure, she did not listen. She felt too bright inside.

It's funny how some arguments are easier, more comforting, than real conversation.

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening. - Richard Branson

Tell me where it hurts

As we ate, I half-listened to her tale of woe featuring a horse and her ex-husband and one of her twins. Made comforting noises at all the right spots.

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My entire body shaking, I carefully unstrapped the seat belt and turned around as far as I could to look at the backseat. Or rather, the dog that sat on it. He was panting, his eyes round, but there was nothing at all odd about him. Other than the fact that I'd just heard him speak. "You can't talk," I told him. "I think I can," he answered.

We're quiet then, quiet enough that I can hear the books around me creaking in their shelves, rustling their pages, stretching their spines, as if they have something to add to the conversation. Which some of them probably do.

You can't ignore someone who speaks to you from the heart.

Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Coaching involves listening to others, asking questions to deepen thinking, allowing others to find their own solutions, and doing it all in a way that makes people feel empowered and responsible enough to take action.

The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.

I remembered that my father and mother had told me to speak less in such situations; the less you say, the more you'll likely hear. That's the way you learn from others.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

A man who can't take a word of criticism hears it the most.

But while Kravitz has a need to perform, with Sam you saw nothing. Things just got done. And when he wasn't doing, he was thinking—he was doing things inside his head. In the rinks and parks of Snowdon, he learned that if you know everything about everything, people listen. And if you're willing to do everything, people let you.

Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.

Ron Kraybill, a respected Christian mediator, has noted that "effective confrontation is like a graceful dance from supportiveness to assertiveness and back again." This dance may feel awkward at first for those who are just learning it, but perseverance pays off. With God's help you can learn to speak the truth in love by saying only what will build others up, by listening responsibly to what others say, and by using principles of wisdom.

We are supposed to listen to the voice within us that says, "Gosh, this just doesn't sound loving, even though it sounds correct!" Of course, there's much sorting to be done: what does love really call for in a given situation? Nevertheless, the warning in Scripture is there for a reason.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.