Listening Quotes - Page 5

She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It’s kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn’t listening.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

Shannon L. Alder

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.

Peter S Beagle

One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people

Sunday Adelaja

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Fred Rogers

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Graham Speechley

Trans” may work well enough as shorthand, but the quickly developing mainstream narrative it evokes (“born in the wrong body,” necessitating an orthopedic pilgrimage between two fixed destinations) is useless for some—but partially, or even profoundly, useful for others? That for some, “transitioning” may mean leaving one gender entirely behind, while for others—like Harry, who is happy to identify as a butch on T—it doesn’t? I’m not on my way anywhere, Harry sometimes tells inquirers. How to explain, in a culture frantic for resolution, that sometimes the shit stays messy? I do not want the female gender that has been assigned to me at birth. Neither do I want the male gender that transsexual medicine can furnish and that the state will award me if I behave in the right way. I don’t want any of it. How to explain that for some, or for some at some times, this irresolution is OK—desirable, even (e.g., “gender hackers”)—whereas for others, or for others at some times, it stays a source of conflict or grief? How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality—or anything else, really—is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

Maggie Nelson

The biggest barrier in communication is that tendency of listening to reply and not to understand.

Wilson M. Mukama

Effective communication requires active listening skills.

Farshad Asl

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Laurie Buchanan

Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.

Bill Walsh

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.

Ted Chiang

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant McGill

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

A.J. Darkholme

To listen to a person is not passive.

Elizabeth Strout

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

William Hazlitt

If a man seeks you to understand him; listen closely, for what is really going on is nothing more that you manifesting your desire to seek yourself on a plateau of awareness that is not tangible

Jeremy Aldana

The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

Sharon Weil

So how long do I have before—what were their names? Carl and Rosa? Yeah, that’s them. How long do I have before they come back?”“I don’t know. Maybe...maybe an hour or so?” My hands felt incredibly small in his.That lopsided grin was back. “I doubt they’d be happy to find me here.”“Why?”His brows rose. “Maybe I’m wrong. They used to coming home to find some strange guy sitting on their couch?”I rolled my eyes.“That’s it, isn’t it?” Rider tugged on my hands, and I rose, letting him pull me down to the couch beside him. He leaned back, sliding one arm around my shoulders and tucking me against his side. “Just par for the course with you, huh?”I didn’t know what to do with my hands since he’d let go of them, so I folded them in my lap. “I’ve never had a...guy here.”Rider stiffened and then he twisted his neck so he was looking at me.Did I seriously admit that out loud? Squeezing my eyes shut, I sighed. “I’m just...going to shut up now.”He chuckled. “Don’t do that. I like listening to you talk.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Mark Nepo

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

Brent M. Jones

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

David Halberstam

The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.

Bryant McGill

Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?

Richelle E. Goodrich

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

Thomas Dubay

Always be respectful and open-minded when listening to another man's beliefs. What you reject today could be your mantra tomorrow. Man's evolution is all about transformations. An unexpected experience you have one day can change you forever.

Suzy Kassem

If you are a good leader, you are a good listener.

Miggy Villas

Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.

Bryant McGill

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

Bryant McGill

The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to listen to. Truly, we do not have a choice of listening versus not listening. We all obey certain voices, and thus the question is not “Will I listen?” but “Which voices will I listen to?” But it is not only a matter of choosing to listen to good voices over bad ones. If only it were as simple as the proverbial whispering angel and devil on our shoulders. It is also a matter of whether we will choose to listen to different voices, voices that don’t sound the same as our own. Will we listen to the voices of different cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds and beliefs? Will we listen to the voices that unsettle us and might make us feel anxious or guilty? If we choose to listen only to voices that echo our own, we will be limited in our growth and stunted in our spirituality. Choosing to tune in to only one or two stations may be comfortable, but it is not transformative. The voices we want to hear are not always the same as the voices we need to hear.

Adam McHugh

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

Genna Rulon

Open your mind and let the universe speak to you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

God's Word makes it very clear that the state of our hearts determines the quality of our "listening ears.

Wendy Blight

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

Terry Tempest Williams

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant McGill

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody.

George Selden

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

Stephen Chbosky

... listening to the silence together. If there’s any. I truly believe not so. I have never heard a silence. Have you? The world is filled with unspoken words. And that’s something different isn’t it.

Anna Jae

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.

Gordon Hempton

Silent is an anagram of listen.

Johnny Rich

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

David Grossman

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

Deyth Banger

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Ronald A. Heifetz

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

Eric Jerome Dickey

I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can’t listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen.

Irene Tomkinson

The Tone is the Message.

Kevin T. McCarney

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Asa Don Brown

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

H.W. Brands

Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

Angelica Hopes

Truth speaks for itself if we’d just let it speak.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no greater path than the act of listening.

Bryant McGill

There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.

Bryant McGill

We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.

A.J. Darkholme

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

Orrin Woodward

...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

Alexandre Dumas

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

Suzy Kassem

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Terence McKenna

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Haruki Murakami

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