Quotes About Listening

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.

Paper has more patience than people.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

It takes patience to make a man - the patience to listen, watch and wait.

Listening is more important than talking.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

Listening ears are soothing for a heart that needs peace.

Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.

I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.