Quotes About Listening

Pues porque a la gente le gusta la conversación por la conversación misma, aunque no diga nada

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

It is not the hearing that improves life, it is the listening.

A more substantive potential use of words to enhance our lives is the lost art of conversation.

We need to talk to the person, not about them.

It takes a lot of work to start a conversation—overcoming hesitancy, approaching someone, checking our mind-set, and saying the right things. It also takes a lot of energy to keep a conversation going well. That's where we usually put our focus. So it's surprising to most people that ending a conversation can often be the toughest part.

The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.

I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.

How would our lives change if we knew what to listen for? What effect would it have if we learned how to listen for his voice in the midst of our dailiness, our everyday work and play? According to the witness of Scripture, God does have a call on our lives, a purpose, a plan, a message, and he does care about our moment-by-moment existence. This is an incredibly exciting prospect! And potentially a frightening one as well.

This is a book about redemption. It's also about listening to what God has called you do to and then being all in no matter how crazy or unrealistic it seems. It's about expecting God to work it out, keeping the faith, and knowing that when God says it's time, it is time, and no one can stop Him.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

We agreed that our own ideas and expectations tended to make us deaf to hearing God's will. We needed, at least at times, to just lay them down and listen. Leave the next move entirely up to God.

Love is dialougue, not monolougue

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

The day you took the test I would have told you this: that you had no time to listen to questions hunting out the answers in your files is surely the kind of irony that poems are made of

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his way along, and it seemed hours before he got them into the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood and they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the treetops. 'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought.

See how you feel, and always give in gracefully if that particular day is not your day to fast.

Yes, it has happened to me, but not always so vividly. I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God. Perhaps God is always talking to us, but we don't know how to listen," Shin stated.

It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God. Perhaps God is always talking to us, but we don't know how to listen,

I didn't have my mom. But I did have Rose. Rose loved giving advice, and I loved listening to it.

Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.

In the process of listening for mysterious voices and expressing the wonder that comes is a magic akin to the perfection of Tao.