Quotes About Listening

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.