Quotes About Listening

I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

If you stand to close to your reflection you do not see the full picture of who you are. When one heart speaks, other hearts cannot help but listen. Always keep your mouth closed when cleaning the toilet. All from my book.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

Además de conocer de primera mano ciertas cosas que usted jamás encontrará en los informes de gestión, el hecho de que un alto directivo (en este caso, usted) se interese por las opiniones de sus colaboradores, las pida y se tome la molestia de escucharlas tiene un enorme valor para todos.

adquirir el hábito de tomar notas es una capacidad que se complementa de maravilla con el arte de escuchar. ¡Por favor, anote esto para que no se le olvide!

escuchar atentamente a todo aquel que tenga una opinión para compartir y no solo a los autoproclamados expertos. También implica aprender del otro, del mercado y de los errores que se cometen a fin de llegar a un lugar original y radicalmente nuevo. Quizá lo más importante sea hacerlo divirtiéndose, con D mayúscula.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

So, too, I and countless others have chosen to give God a fair hearing—if only he would speak. I would listen to him even now, at this very moment. Yet he remains silent.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

The preacher gave a fine sermon. He used some big English words I had never heard before because our meetings were taken by the grown-ups in our language. But I remember the tunes of some of them and asked my father afterwards. I suppose I must have got the tunes wrong because although my father tried and said them over again, we never found out what they were and I am still in ignorance to this day.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends.

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.

Tagore said, Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

His hand goes out, gesturing toward the conifers. It amazes me how much they say, when you let them. They're not that hard to hear. The (other) man chuckles. We've been trying to tell you that since 1492.

Love was long over, but what was lost to him he still loved so harshly that it prevented him from listening even to its trace.

What?" he asks the tree. "What? " The tree feels no need to reply.

Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends.

life is trying to say something no one hears.