Quotes About Listening

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Het is altijd vervelend wanneer iemand je geen antwoord geeft of niet doet alsof hij je niet verstaat. Dat gebeurt op vergaderingen ook wel eens. De woorden blijven in de lucht hangen, zoals dat heet, en de betrokkene doet zijn uiterste best zijn verlegenheid en irritatie te verbergen door zich met een scherpe wending in zijn betoog tot iemand te richten die op dat moment toevallig in zijn richting kijkt.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Ian sat and listened in the studio, headphones around his neck, staring at the floor. That was his heart they'd just heard.

Music offered up a fourth wonder of life, transporting people to new dimensions of symbolic meaning in experiences at concerts, listening quietly to a piece of music, chanting in a religious ceremony, or simply singing with others.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

there is nothing wrong in talking quietly; it only makes people listen harder.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

To be interesting, be interested.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

I'd like to accept this on behalf of all the stories told and untold, the writers heard and unheard, from the remarkable continent I'm part of. Please keep listening to us, there's a lot more to come.

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.

I've learned that speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.

I don't get it. For the first few years of your life, all grown-ups do is teach you how to talk. And then, for the rest of your life, all they do is tell you to stop talking. What's up with that?

Remember, people don't buy from you because they understand what you sell—they buy from you because they feel understood.

The best marketers aren't the best talkers… although many of them could charm the  pants right off you…they're the best listeners. They know how to hear what prospects are really saying and what they're not saying.

The whole world needs to STFU.

A Prayer for Joy" Help me, O God, To listen to what it is that makes my heart glad And to follow where it leads. May joy, not guilt, Your voice, not the voices of others, Your will, not my willfulness, Be the guides that lead me to my vocation. Help me to unearth the passions of my heart That lay buried in my youth. And help me to go over that ground again and again Until I can hold in my hands, Hold and treasure, Your calling on my life. —Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul