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Quotes About Listening

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.
~ Thomas Watson
Los cristianos escuchan mucho, pero me temo que aprenden poco.
~ Thomas Watson
If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.
~ Thomas Watson
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
~ Thornton Wilder
Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
~ Thornton Wilder
One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?
~ Thornton Wilder
Dondequiera que estén las huellas del Maestro, allí, los oídos del que está pronto para recibir sus enseñanzas se abren de par en par». Y además: «Cuando el oído es capaz de oír, entonces vienen los labios que han de llenarlos con sabiduría».
~ Three Initiates
Los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos del entendimiento." El Kybalión.
~ Three Initiates
Los labios de la sabiduría permanecen cerrados excepto para el oído capaz de comprender.»
~ Three Initiates
los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos capaces de entender". Y
~ Three Initiates
When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh lips to fill them with Wisdom." —
~ Three Initiates
I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
~ Thurston Moore
Adult social stuff can't be harder than seventh grade. It's not hard to make friends. Just be an active listener. If you listen hard enough, you can tell what a person needs from you. And if you give them what they need, you've got a friend for life.
~ Tia Williams
If you listen hard enough, you can tell what a person needs from you. And if you give them what they need, you've got a friend for life.
~ Tia Williams
I have an ear monitor to block outside noise when I'm performing. It makes it easier. But sometimes I like to take the ear monitor off and listen to the craziness going on.
~ Cody Simpson
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
~ Horace Walpole
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.
~ Richie Sambora
Im not a nostalgia freak, I never listen to old Spandau Ballet stuff.
~ Tony Hadley
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
~ Shannon Purser
Fauci's defenders insist listening to him is about saving lives and we should 'follow the science.' If you hear someone say that run, they're not interested in science and they are certainly not interested in your life.
~ Will Cain
Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
~ Ziggy Marley
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
~ Carla Bley