Quotes About Listening

She stood there: she listened. She heard the names of the stars.

They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so as to be overheard by anyone who might be listening, that they were contemplating moving, when all at once the fiend was gone, as happens with the moskovett , that bitter blast, that colossus of cold air that blows on our eastern shores throughout March, and then one morning you hear the birds, and the flags hang flaccid, and the outlines of the world are again in place.

her husband had such a soothing capacity for showing how silent a man could be if he strictly avoided comments on the weather.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

While understanding reality is crucial, equally important is communicating it to your people. In part that means, as noted earlier, knowing your people and listening to their concerns.

Thus you have to rely on yourself to contain your own ego and recognize your inevitable blind spots. Be particularly cautious about losing your ability to listen. Not only do you need expertise from both within and outside the company to shore up your blind spots and weaknesses, but also a pipeline to people willing and able to bring you diverse views and bad news. Above all, you need to be able to recognize when you're part of the problem.

Gandhi: "My friend, I'm glad you listened to the voice of God, and not the voice of Gandhi." Mountbatten: "Well, Gandhiji, his is the only voice I'd sooner listen to than yours, but in what respect did I take God's advice against yours.

When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There's nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

You don't have to respond to everything said to you. Sometimes you can just smile.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

The first rule of my speaking is: listen!

I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

I never learned anything when I was talking.

My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I'm talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I'm going to learn a lot today, I'll have to do it by listening. As

The best conversationalists are curious about everything. That's why they are good at listening and why they have broad horizons—they're always learning something new.

Nobody listens for very long anyway. There's a new disease of the month every day.

We ask everyone to use sentence prayers (one person praying for just one item at a time). This shuts down the long-winded dominator and enables those who are new or more introverted to pray out loud much more easily. Of course, if someone doesn't want to pray, they don't have to.

We're supposed to weep with those who weep. We're not supposed to smother them with banal truisms, out-of-context Bible verses, shallow advice, and links to our favorite podcasts.3 The

I found out it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other 20 percent are glad you're having trouble.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

I know God can't answer every prayers exactly the way you want Him to. But I couldn't help thinking that He hadn't been doing very well by me lately. Even so, I prayed. It wasn't a proper prayer, just a cry for help, but I felt He was listening.

The best thing about being a friend, is just being.