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Quotes About Listening

Su obligación es servir en silencio lo que le pidan. Si quisiéramos incluirle a usted en nuestra conversación, se lo habríamos indicado. Sepa que estamos discutiendo cuestiones personales de no poca importancia.
~ John Kennedy Toole
good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.
~ Unknown
One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.
~ John Markoff
LISTEN twice as much as you speak.
~ John Maxwell
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
~ Mayer Hawthorne
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
~ Mason Cooley
Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
~ Dick Gephardt
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
~ Stephen Covey
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.
~ Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
~ Al Jarreau
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
~ David Neeleman
When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.
~ Ben Folds
It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.
~ Regina King
The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
~ Tommy Lee
I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.
~ Nate Lowman
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
~ Benedict of Nursia
Be attentive to the voice of grace.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
~ Caryll Houselander
Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.
~ David Wilkerson
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Faith comes from listening to the right stories.
~ Michael Gungor
You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes.
~ Kirsten Miller