Quotes About Listening

The first duty of love is to listen.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Talking to others who understand what you're going through can help.

Men hear what they like and invent the rest.

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.

There comes a time in every relationship when as far as a man is concerned everything that needs to be said has been said. Usually we women are too busy talking to ourselves to notice but, when we do figure it out, boy are we mad.

I told you but you didn't hear me. You hear what you want.

He was going to have somebody reading the evening news to him for quite some time.

Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Don't waste time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Aceptar y respetar la diferencia es una de esas virtudes sin las cuales la escucha no se puede dar" (Paulo Freire)

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

For voice to be meaningful, there must be those willing to listen.

All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they're talking about, join in. If you don't know what they're talking about, then ask questions,' he relayed as if it was really that simple. 'People don't mind being asked questions. In fact, they like to show off their knowledge. What they don't like is someone pretending to know what they're talking about when they don't.

Teach me half the gladnessThat thy brain must know,Such harmonious madness,From my lips would flow,The world should listen then, as I am listening now.

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.

Stay up and listen to lightening. If there is no lightening around, stay up and listen to nothing. Just listen to the sheer joy of your thoughts trans-versing from one corner of your brain to the next.

Get your arm off of me: I'm trying to listen for shoulder-worms in your rotator cuff.

Jesus is what God sounds like. He's literally the "living Word of God." Hearing his voice is not so much a skill we must master, therefore, as a master we must meet.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.