Listening Quotes - Page 2

You are now listening to me; you are not making an effort to pay attention, you are just listening; and if there is truth in what you hear, you will find remarkable change taking place in you – a change that is not premeditated or wished for, a transformation, a complete revolution in which the truth alone is master and not the creations of your mind. And if I may suggest it, you should listen in that way to everything – not only to what I am saying, but also to what other people are saying; to the birds, to the whistle of a locomotive, to the noise of the bus gong by. You will find that the more you listen to everything, the greater is the silence, and that silence is then not broken by noise. It is only when you are resisting something, when you are putting up a barrier between yourself and that to which you do not want to listen – it is only then that there is a struggle.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would be a Very Good Idea. "Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.

A.A. Milne

This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.

Chris Cleave

The person you're most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Nassim Taleb

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

Mark Nepo

At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.

Tony Buon

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

Gina Greenlee

Sometimes all that’s needed to heal a wounded soul and lift a sagging spirit is one loving listener, for at its core, listening is love–love that sacrifices its need to be heard in favor of hearing, a desire to lecture in favor of learning, an opportunity to show off in favor of showing compassion. Instead of always leading the way, a patient listener, just by nodding in all the right places, can help a wanderer discover the right path on her own.

Claudia Barba

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

Thomas C. Oden

Learn to listen when people are talking. Frist, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say ne thing they mean another.

Julie Andrews Edwards

Anyone can talk, but to listen is a gift, we should all exchange

J. Benson

People are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the “apostolate of the ear,” and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them.

Pope Francis

Listening isn't just about being quiet.It's about listening to -What is Said,What is Unsaid,and What is meantWith your Eyes, Ears and Heart

Wordions

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

Rick Perlstein

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

E.M. Forster

There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations.

Suzanne Rindell

Mostly, people are looking for someone to listen to them. Someone willing to grant them time, to listen to their dramas and difficulties. This is what I call the “apostolate of the ear,” and it is important. Very important. I feel compelled to say to confessors: talk, listen with patience, and above all tell people that God loves them.

Pope Francis

Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.

Marlene Steinberg

Paradoxically, admitting your own powerlessness can free you from the need to fix everything and allow us to be truly present to the other person, and to listen. A cartoon in The New Yorker had one woman saying testily to her friend, 'There's no point in our being friends if you won't let me fix you.

James Martin

Are You Listening Attentively? There’s so much power in listening! I challenge you to listen more. Really pay attention to what people are saying. What are they REALLY talking about? Many times we overlook and/or make excuses for people’s conversations. Don’t allow people to dump garbage in your spirit. What we listen to can have a negative effect on what, and how, we think. Be choosy about the relationships you entertain. Surround yourself with people that bring out the best in you. People that are positive, inspiring, and genuine. Remember: Value your time! Don’t waste it on dead-end and/or fake relationships.

Stephanie Lahart

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Harold Holzer

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

H.W. Brands

Most of the problems in life are because:We misunderstand people's intentions, We don't listen and jump to conclusions, Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.

Mouloud Benzadi

And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear. He listened to the wind and the falling ocean and my voice, always with rapt attention, a concentration that almost excluded physical bodies themselves and kept only the sounds.

Ray Bradbury

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

Dan Groat

People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I stopped short and sighed as Derek stepped up behind me, arms sliding around my waist. I leaned back against him and rel

Kelley Armstrong

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

Henry Kimsey-House

She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands.

Anne Brontë

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.

Robert A. Caro

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

Deyth Banger

Don’t ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation.

Clifford Cohen

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Walter Anderson

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Turkish Proverbs

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Joyce Brothers

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

Anonymous

True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people.

Kiana Tom

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Alan Alda

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening that talking.

Bernard Baruch

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Malcom Forbes

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.

Kevin Stirtz

Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield.

Terrence Real

Just by listening without looking I can tell you is it a white man singing or black.... as far as now is easy!

Deyth Banger

Oscar’s hobby was saving people. He used to save people all the time, and fix things that were broken and catch people when they were falling. It wasn’t a skill you’d immediately know about or notice. Stevie said that Oscar had a gift and the gift was that he could smell things you wouldn’t imagine would smell of anything- things like sadness and desperation. Things like far and hopelessness.He never made a big deal about it, but he was quiet and confident – and when you believe in own abilities, you are much more likely to be always ready to act on them, which Oscar always was. Whenever I asked him about it, he claimed that his were not exceptional or extraordinary abilities in the slightest. Everyone, he said, is able to tell when someone is in need of help, but few people really take the time to listen to their instincts, and that, he said, was the only difference between him and a lot of other of people.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Listening has certainly become a scarce skill, therefore we need ways to enhance this skill especially for the next generation.

Gugu Mona

People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.

Clifford Cohen

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Amit Ray

What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

Joyce Rachelle

Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to wind it, start the record turning, and set the needle playing. In a second I'd jumped to the floor, to spin or march around the room as the music called for - now there were all the other records I could play too. I skinned back onto the chair just in time to lift the needle at the end, stop the record and turn it over, then change the needle. Winding up, dancing, being cocked to start and stop the record, was of course, all in one the act of listening. Movement must be at the very heart of listening.

Eudora Welty

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

Hadi Farnoud

His practice was to listen noncommittally with half his mind, while he allowed the other half to lose itself in utterly unrelated , often deeply lonely musings. From the speaker's perspective it was like sticking a lance into something again and again with no result...

Yasushi Inoue

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Maggie Kuhn

Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You’re so still. It’s like, you’ll just hear it.” He smiled wryly. “I can’t even hear what I’m thinking most of the time,” he said, his brow wrinkling. “My brain’s noisy.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter spoke to me about ladders today. Life is full of lessons for those who listen.

Indeewara Jayawardane

Listening isn't just about being quiet. It's about listening to what is said, what is unsaid, and what is meant with your eyes, ears and heart.

Drishti Bablani

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