Quotes About Listening

I listened and listened and listened, thinking what will I do now? How will I get this poor mad bastard to shut up? I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

Soon found there is no way to rid yourself of a disagreeable man's conversation more effectually than by not allowing him an opportunity of making a remark.

God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

But I couldn't hear what he was saying.

LORD, thank you for the incredible privilege of prayer. How amazing it is that you bend down and listen to me, that you hear and answer my prayers. Thank you for the privilege of being a partner with you as you fulfill your purposes, and thank you for showing yourself mighty as I pray. Empower me to pray as long as I breathe!

People start to heal the moment they feel heard.

Treat people with kindness because behind every face is a story that could use a little more love.

HARSH WORDS Whad'ya say that for? You want me to go deaf?

Everybody says they want to hear from consumers. Well, be careful what you ask for: Now they won't shut up.

Most people made it more complicated than it really was, she thought. They looked for a formula or a mathematical equation. And believed that if you didn't do every step right, you didn't get what you were praying for. She knew nothing could be further from the truth because prayer was about relationship. Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you. She

Please, God, she prayed. Help me to hear him and let him just say what he needs to say. Help me not be afraid.

There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it.

Part of being a good parent was knowing when to say something and what to say, Elizabeth thought. The hardest part of parenting was knowing when to say nothing and listen.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

I actually don't listen to CDs very often. I listen to the radio or if I do listen to a CD, it'll be a mix.

As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode.

I don't believe in models that say you just knock on this door, you just go to this community, and you'll get elected. I think you go everywhere, and you listen to everybody. Everybody's got ideas.