Quotes About Listening

Listen to the crickets," she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.

If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.

There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

You must listen to your woman more as an oracle than as an advisor

Listen for an hour, speak for a minute

God is at work in all the places we already inhabit. He is bigger than the arena of our own immediate church programs and ideas about evangelism. He is a prodigal God recklessly working in people and situations of all types. If we truly believe God is at work in the world, we must take the time to pay attention, listen, and discern what God is doing in the lives of those around us.

you will marvel at how very unusual Yale's team of star performers is in combining rigor and objectivity with the personal warmth and trust that avoids "politics" or "positioning" and maximizes real listening for full understanding every day.

El silencio sigue siendo el mejor antídoto para los desacuerdos.

Listening to sermons and reading the Bible provide information about Jesus, but this is not the same as a personal meeting of him in the events of his life.

can participate in interstellar conversation. Yet there is inherent asymmetry in galactic radio discourse. It is much easier to listen than to transmit. A huge gulf yawns between the ability to build a radio telescope and the ability to mount a sustained multimillennial broadcasting and listening program. We cannot reasonably search for our equals.

The body is so beautiful, she says with newly found wonder she senses. So good and so precious. Sweet, this body of ours is sweet. It gives us so much goodness and happiness if we're only good to it, if we only listen to it, because it is so wise. It always knows what we want before we know ourselves, and it knows what's really good for us. If we only understand what it's trying to tell us, our precious body, if we only love it as it is, exactly as it is...

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand; he only wants to express his own opinion.

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

desert kept a still tongue, and when

IMC means Instrument Meteorological Conditions, and this is when the pilot is in the clouds, and all hunched over in the cockpit, watching the instrument panel like it was Asian Porno, and listening to every word you say.

Emotional support is yet another facet of commitment, revealed by behavior such as being available in times of trouble and listening to the partner's problems.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.