Quotes About Listening

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Because paper has more patience than people.

People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.

A good orator must be a good listener

Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who is hurting. Only judge when time passes and the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything.

Listening is two part, attention and thinking. The latter is what a lot of us don't do

We've talked, and alot has been said, but no words were uttered at all

Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

If you end up with the story you started with, you weren't listening along the way.

Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always choose to learn from others.

Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.

bad days makes you stronger, those are the best days because God is talking to you. you just have to listen closely. Don't let your tears become louder than his voice.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,

And that was the day she invented it, this particular glazed expression of hers. She had created it to please her father, but it had served her well in her life. When she wore it, most men thought she was listening to them, and most women knew that the conversation was over.

When you listen deeply, and allow a connection to emerge, the resulting conversations can be profound, creative and extremely useful.

Since Svarte and Kol had not a single word to say about this matter, their conversation died out.

Enemies are people whose stories you haven't yet heard and whose faces you haven't yet seen. —Irene Hasenberg Butter, Holocaust survivor, during an interview at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 13, 2013

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony.

I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon - "Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.