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Quotes About Listening

Si acudimos a Él en actitud de rebeldía, de indiferencia y de orgullo, no oiremos lo que quiere decir. Para escuchar debemos poner de manifiesto una actitud adecuada hacia Dios.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Los únicos métodos constructivos que nos permiten sobrevivir las tormentas del siglo veinte consisten en escuchar y obedecer a Dios. Los requisitos para vivir existencias perdurables consisten en escuchar su voz e integrarla a nuestro sistema de valores, a nuestros patrones de comportamiento, a nuestros pensamientos y a nuestras conversaciones.
~ Charles F. Stanley
However, since Scripture teaches that all believers, young and old, should clearly be able to discern the voice of God, it's important for you to stop talking at times and just listen to Him. Grow still and quiet. Open His Word and learn to identify how He speaks. You will, eventually, recognize His voice and know exactly what to do.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Hemos edificado bien, prestando atención a la Palabra de Dios y aplicándola a diario, o hemos edificado pobremente, escuchando pero sin llevarla a la práctica?
~ Charles F. Stanley
The Lord desires to heal you to the core of your being—even in the places you've forgotten exist. So listen to Him and deal with whatever He surfaces, confident He is leading you to freedom.
~ Charles F. Stanley
To me, a comic says funny things. A humorist thinks funny things. But a humorist must not only think funny, he must listen funny... The best story tellers... are listeners and thinkers.
~ Jack Paar, 1950s
I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.
~ Woodrow Wilson, 1914
Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.
~ Dodinsky
Far far away, behind the word mountains, there live the blind texts. They live at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. One day a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn't listen.
~ BlindTextGenerator.com
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
~ Judge, 1919
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
~ American Indian Proverb
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
~ Author Unknown
I move easily between the four seasons — dance-painting my planting songs. dance-painting my gardening songs. dance-painting my harvesting songs. dance-painting my quiet winter listening songs.
~ James McGrath (b.1928)
You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.
~ Pat Obuchowski
[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?...
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
~ Proverb
The silent man is the best to listen to.
~ Japanese Proverb
Silence was never written down.
~ Italian proverb
Silence is also speech.
~ Proverb
When snow falls, nature listens.
~ Antoinette van Kleeff
the wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.
~ Gordon T. Smith
The truth is useless if no one can hear it.
~ Graham McNeill
What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.
~ Grandmaster Flash