Quotes About Listening

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

A lot of happiness can be brought to the mentally distraught by a little understanding.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

Have people that listen to you and that you listen to. Helping other people is an amazing means of getting out of yourself, being available to people who are in pain or need help, being connected.

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I come home, for example, and I listen my album, and this is different.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

The Unicorn Sonata... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.