Quotes About Listening

Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.

The outer self, that which you believe yourself to be. is nothing more than a limiting place, a stranger to the true self. This is why people have such a hard time listening to what their souls are telling them; they try to control the soul so that it does exactly as they have already decided - their wants. their hopes, their futures.

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

Listen to your hands. If your skin begins to pull, tingle or give indications of a blister or tear, listen to it and stop. Halting a set early to save your hands is far preferable to ignoring the warning and allowing a tear to occur which can derail your training.

Any good lover is a good listener. And a bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist.

The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.