Quotes About Listening

Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.

I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

The child who feels your respect during silences is nourished more than the child who is constantly fussed and chattered over.

Those who are very active in doing good works might think that they are superior to those who choose to place hearing God's word first place.

a person who hears the word of God but does not understand what he hears will fail to retain or apply it.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Não é tanto a língua dos pintores, mas a língua da natureza à qual é preciso dar ouvidos.

Ciò che più parla nelle parole è il silenzio.

herself. Moses laughed along with them. "You would be amazed the things men will say when they're standing around on the street corner. Since my trash route runs through the heart of the business district, I hear a great many

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

It is amazing what God will tell you, if you only take the time to listen.

Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.

After a little bit, [the wolf] heard a human voice call out from inside the house, "Little Red Riding Hood, is that you? Have you come to visit your Granny?" But since the wolf didn't speak human, he guessed what the person had said was: "Did I hear something? Is there someone out there who needs to come in, could you scratch louder?" So that's what the wolf did: he scratched louder.

Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.

Simply put, there is no substitute for meeting and listening to dissatisfied customers directly.

MBWA (management by walking around) is hardly ever effective. The reason is that someone in management, walking around, has little idea about what questions to ask, and usually does not pause long enough at any spot to get the right answer.

Children should not offer their opinions in the presence of their elders or contradict them.

You need to be able to read music. For the last three parts you need to be able to play a keyboard instrument well enough to navigate at least most of the musical examples. It helps to have previously investigated the overtone series, or be ready to (the text helps you). Also, the more you are in the habit of listening to the music of the world's various cultures, the more insight you will bring to this study.

When I was growing up, my mother taught me the language of birds; and when I got married, I used to be listening to their conversation; and I would be laughing; and my wife would be asking what was the reason of my laughing, but I did not like to tell her

He has never seen God, but, once or twice, he believes he has heard Him.

O how I wish Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events. [...] What would he say about hippie communes, student demonstrations, drugs, trades unions? Would he still be as hopeful about the social benefits of nationalised industries? Would he still call for a higher birth-rate? What he would say, I have no idea: I am only certain that he would be worth listening to.

To remember Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never Has fallen silent.

Trees" I am looking at trees they may be one of the things I will miss most from the earth though many of the ones I have seen already I cannot remember and though I seldom embrace the ones I see and have never been able to speak with one I listen to them tenderly their names have never touched them they have stood round my sleep and when it was forbidden to climb them they have carried me in their branches