Quotes About Listening

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never stop looking. That is how I am looking because my mouth is not working enough for me to speak and even my leg are hardly working for me to move.

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

Believe them and they'll tell you all sorts of things.

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.

Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

When understanding another person's problem you help him correctly, even though there is nothing you can do about it.

Listen to yourself when you talk; you might be surprised at what you hear.

God doesn't compete with the clamor and white noise of our busy lives. He beckons us to come before Him in silence. He wants our full, undivided attention. He wants us to cultivate space in our days to lay ourselves at His feet and breathe. He calls us to be still, or as another translation (NASB) says, "Cease striving.

Hr heard your prayers, son. He just didn't answer them the way you'd hoped. And there's no special way to talk to God. Just find a quiet place and tell Him what's on your heart like you talk to Lara.

She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine...She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her.

If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become so loud that each night I fold them into origamic cigarettes and smoke them so they'll blow away.

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.