Quotes About Listening

e tutte le cose intorno ascoltavano sorprese che oltre il lieve mormorio degli alberi al vento altre voci esistessero.

It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.

When youu take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

What are the elements of transparent trust that will allow us to move gradually into the deep waters of transformation? • Affirming one another through encouragement • Walking with one another through difficult times • Being a reflective listener who assists another to hear God's guidance in life's complexities • Confessing our sins to one another that we may be healed

Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very literal. Sometimes you see things like "He's not the smartest man in the world! All he does is drink." Well, they're not listening very closely.

She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn't remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.

May we all live up to his example; may we all try to be the one who hears a new

Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears to the bottom of the boat so we could listen to their songs. We turned to my grandfather and asked, "What do their song mean?" "The whales do not sing because they have an answer," he said. "They sing because they have a song.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that includes all people, animals, cultures, currencies, languages, and the living things as yet undiscovered; listen to the truth the land will tell you; act accordingly.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Nikada ljudi nisu tako puno komunicirali, nikada tako malo slušali jedni druge.

It's always just a few who know where to look and how to listen, that is true. But for the best stories, a few are just enough.

Soms valt het woord als een sneeuwvlok, Soms valt het woord als een steen, Zodat iedereen zegt: stil, daar valt een woord.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689

Sometimes the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts.

Listening without judgement is a difficult skill to learn. But we must attempt to listen. We have two ears and one mouth. Hear more and speak less.