Quotes About Listening

I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

Allow there to be space inside so that you can hear the messages clearly.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own "body music." T

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

We feel a sense of ownership about opinions we call our own. It often takes incredible courage to give up on an opinion we have held for some time after listening to someone else.

Listening is not about simply hearing physical words or sounds, they are often a nuisance; listening is a surrender to the moment with a quiet mind and an open heart. We are almost never in this place. We live in the illusionary world of subconscious thoughts with a full and busy mind. And sadly, a heart that is all too often closed to self/Self. Honour yourself by learning to truly listen. Go to Contents

Practice listening to the sounds of Nature around you, or, if you live in a city, listen to your favorite music played softly enough that you really have to listen to hear it. When thoughts intrude on your listening, just accept it and, without resistance, let them go. You cannot force listening; you can only surrender your resistance to listening!

Many of the modeling mistakes are modeler's poor listening skills.

You're too worried about figuring out what you can believe about all of this, and then figuring out how to control it. That's how most people approach their lives. Way I feel, though, after a lot of years of living? Not much of what matters in the world is under your control. You don't dictate, you adapt. That's all. So stop trying to control this, and start trying to listen to what it's telling you.

acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn't want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.

People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.

At a wat temple in the mountains of Northern Thailand, a Buddhist teacher once reminded me of a simple truth. "Life," he said, "is offered as a means of self-expression, only giving us what we seek when we listen to the heart." The highest forms of this expression are acts of kindness.

I listen to the line as it disconnects, to the last wave of electricity as it pulses from Maine to the Hoosier State, from her to me, and then wait for the thick silence that flows behind it.

Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.

He'd taught him how to listen to the earth, how to speak to the animals, how to love and look after your kind with ferocity.

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the power to make choices – we may just have been listening in the wrong places;

Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn.

Consider this, music is a collection of sounds and silences, if music was just a constant sound, it would be horrible and difficult to listen to, if music was just silence there would be nothing to listen to. In fact, rests could be easily compared to punctuation, if we ignored commas and full stops then reading and indeed speaking would become chaotic.