Quotes About Listening

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I hear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen. Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering.

Can you hear me, all of you?

living in the slippery maybe the last green places are you listening

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'

The glorious mystery is that listening for God holds power whether or not anything is heard.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

My whole life, my mother was the only person I felt comfortable talking to—even after she got sick." "Why is that?" "I think," Sarah said, "that she's just a good listener." Brenna looked at her. "Everybody needs that one person, you know? The one person they can talk to." Brenna

I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.

But the woman smiles, unable to hear the things I don't say.

We said it really wasn't very late, that we were listening to him with growing interest. The bottle of bourbon was empty. I brought another, along with more ice, and we asked the Gaviero to continue his story. On summer nights in California, time stretches like an elastic, compliant material, perfect for hearing the confidences of someone who had a store of tales that could lead us from one marvel to another until dawn.

Sharing Jesus is as simple as connecting with others around their passion or their pain.

Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen.

Hati kita selalu tahu apa yang penting. Hati kita tahu caranya memandu kita. Suara hati kita murni dan dapat dipercaya, tetapi tidak pernah berteriak-teriak supaya didengarkan. Suaranya lembut selirih bisikan. Namun, jika kita belajar mendengarkannya, jika kita mau mendengarkannya, kita takkan pernah merasa kehilangan arah.

He rambled. Oh boy, did he ramble. He rambled in a way that was nothing but a bunch of bippidy blah blah to my ears. Rambled in a way that made my head go all dizzy and squeezy.

Él me escuchaba como si le estuviera contando las cosas más extrañas. La ventaja de las conversaciones con extranjeros es que siempre podemos atribuir la expresión más o menos consternada de nuestro interlocutor a la diferencia cultural.

Ta luôn nghe th?y nh?ng Ä'i?u ta không mu?n nghe, nhÆ°ng ta l?i không nghe ???c nh?ng Ä'i?u mà ta c?n nghe.

Para qué iba a visitar a un psicólogo si existen aeropuertos llenos de gente sin nada más que hacer dispuestos a escucharme?

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.