Quotes About Listening

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding..

A tree sings to us with her beauty and her love. It is our responsibility to listen to her music.

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking, humankind is not listening.

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.