Quotes About Listening

playing the same music on one of those Discmans for tapes from the eighties

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything." "I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

loud, the last thing he should

We have been given two ears but a single mouth, in order that we may hear more and speak less.

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly when it's not called for

Escutar também é falar.

Se permanecesse imóvel por um tempo, aconteceria o inverso daquilo que ela esperava: as letras é que começariam a olhar para ela. E iriam segredar-lhe histórias. Tudo aquilo parecem desenhos, mas dentro das letras estão vozes. Ao lermos não somos o olho; somos o ouvido.

Enquanto ouvir estes relatos você se guarde quieto. O silêncio é que fabrica as janelas por onde o mundo se transparenta. Não escreva, deixe esse caderno no chão. Se comporte como água no vidro. Quem é gota sempre pinge, quem é cacimbo se evapora. Neste asilo, o senhor se aumente de muita orelha. É que aqui vivemos muito oralmente.

Eu só falarei quando as coisas estiverem a dar ara o morto.

You can't hear a whisper if you're constantly shouting.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Your namesake dwelt on this holy mountain three thousand years ago. He came here to listen for the voice of God." Elijah waited, knowing there would be more forthcoming. The wind rummaged uneasily in the grape arbors. "He heard it in a gentle breeze, not in rushing about the world looking for projects. Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us. That is why you came here. That is why you were born." Elijah

Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us.

Accustomed to being listened to, he did not courteously intersperse his comments with questions about Elijah's life and work. He simply held forth.

He knew that God very often did his deepest work in the soul without any sensible manifestations. He was always at work—always—and often most powerfully in those times when his children felt abandoned, alone with impossible responsibilities or afflictions. Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

Though the fear of what was coming returned to him a little, he looked upward to a presence and spoke with it and listened to the answering silence. He knew now that this silence was not absence or negation. It was the language transcending all language, and it crossed the void that man's will had made between himself and God.

Are we just looking for a sympathetic ear to agree with us, or are we asking for people to speak the truth to us? I can remember many times being angry with someone because he spoke the truth to me. How about you?

driven conversation, no matter how small the participation, may destroy the testimony of a life. Listening to grumbling and ungodly attitudes eventually contaminates the spirit. The more we allow discontent to be taken in by our spirits, the greater the tendency to compromise our own speech patterns. We are being called to a high standard of living where the rewards for our faithfulness are eternal.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Working as a white ally is tough, but certainly not impossible. Learning to listen is a virtue that whiteness has often avoided. I asked him to engage, to adopt the vocabulary of empathy, to develop fluidity in the dialect of hope and the language of racial understanding. It

When you feel hungry, drink a glass or two of water first, to see if that's really what your body wants.

When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.