Quotes About Listening

The subconscious mind is capricious and therefore paradoxical, it does not listen to the wisdom of the universe.

All I can say is that effective communication is the cure for any relationship. At the same time, overdoing it will ruin everything.

Cultivate the ability to listen and understand everything to which human passions are extinguished or excited.

Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.

Having blessed with ears does not guarantee that you will understand everything that has been said to you.

Hearing the voice of your beloved is worth more than the speeches of the king and queen combined together.

Listening and hearing is one thing, but understanding is the most crucial part of the equation of mankind.

Music is indeed beautiful for the ears, but don't ignore the effects of vibrations on your eardrums.

Silence is part of the equation and not the final answer in achieving practical wisdom.

Sometimes silence can be beautiful. But you should try to communicate openly with your loved ones and pour your heart into the ears of understanding.

We are only carried away by the skills of public speaking, but none of us cares about the skill of listening. Thus, learning has become a burden to many of us.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.

She was not listening at the level of language but beneath it, in the deep recesses of the imagination.

And the simple act of listening is crucial to the concept of language, more crucial even than reading and writing, and language in turn is crucial to human society.

Metaphors are so prevalent that if one were to specifically look out for them it would spoil completely one's reading and listening, and thus detract from the author's purpose.

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

All this means that we are called to be people who learn to hear God's voice speaking today within the ancient text, and who become vessels of that living word in the world around us.

though the Western tradition and particularly the Protestant and evangelical traditions have claimed to be based on the Bible and rooted in scripture, they have by and large developed long-lasting and subtle strategies for not listening to what the Bible is in fact saying. We must stop giving nineteenth-century answers to sixteenth-century questions and try to give twenty-first-century answers to first-century questions.

Whenever God does something new, he involves people – often unlikely people, frequently surprised and alarmed people. He asks them to trust him in a new way, to put aside their natural reactions, to listen humbly for a fresh word and to act on it without knowing exactly how it's going to work out.

The more you talk, the less you'll have to say. The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

If you ever find something worth singing for again", she said, a silent, fierce hope in her heart for his song, "I hope you will invite me to listen.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know.

In my head I remember that day the Indian man came and hollered at our camp and hadn't hurt anyone yet and I think that he was trying to say something, but no one will lift their eyes when I speak so I don't say anything.