Quotes About Listening

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I had just asked the kids what would have made them feel more loved. But

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To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes.

startling—the Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

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When other people were talking, she stared directly at them with very narrow understanding eyes that listened to them as if they were the only sound left in the world, as if everything else that made sound had disappeared entirely from the human ear and their voice was all there was left.

Being heard and understood is "one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person

Seeking first to understand isn't about who's right or wrong; it is a philosophy of effective communication.

I used to be the type of person who would jump in and try to solve a problem without being asked. Not only did my efforts prove fruitless, they were also almost always unappreciated, and sometimes even resented.

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.

Although airing your grievances with others may help you feel less alone and on rare occasions gets you good advice, more often than not it keeps you stuck in a bad mood.

The next time someone tells you a story or shares an accomplishment with you, notice your tendency to say something about yourself in response.

When you hurry someone along, interrupt someone, or finish his or her sentence, you have to keep track not only of your own thoughts but of those of the person you are interrupting

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

If we eliminate the word writer, if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it right.

YOU PRAY for guidance and then doubt that I answer your prayers. I am always listening, always ready to guide you when you will be led.