Listening Quotes
A.J. Darkholme
Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.
1904 Tim Fargo
Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.
2057 Amit Kalantri
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
4382 C. Kennedy
One can learn from what is not said.
1343 Eudora Welty
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
4285 Michael Bassey Johnson
The impression in the colors of your profound words evokes an everlasting impression in the mind of whosoever hears it.
3806 Mark Nepo
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
3963 Gustave Flaubert
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
1769 Madeleine L'Engle
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
3480 Mark Nepo
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
2449 Richelle E. Goodrich
We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.
2648 A.J. Darkholme
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.
3303 A.J. Darkholme
Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.
2449 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Talking is great, but don't ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only anticipating to compete, challenge, or question what is being said. You can miss out on some important wisdom always running your mouth.
2696 Dejan Stojanovic
Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.
1786 Meredith Duran
For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!
1506 Michael Bassey Johnson
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
2003 Michael Bassey Johnson
When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.
3319 Rachel Simon
Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.
3831 Shaun Hick
Nothing listens as well as a blank page.
1326 Epictetus
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
4487 Isocrates
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
1574 Ashish Patel
Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.
2114 Ursula K. Le Guin
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
1041 Frank C. Laubach
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
1992 Annie Dillard
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
3002 Rachel Joyce
There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.
3352 Caitlyn Paige
We talk, even if no one listens, because we never know when someone will.
4796 Sarah J. Maas
To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed.
3443 Cindy Ann Peterson
A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.
4823 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions
3553 Amit Kalantri
An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.
2672 Vironika Tugaleva
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
3297 Steve Goodier
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
3545 Jim George
Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.
4579 Bryant McGill
When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.
1964 Chris Murray
That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever
4090 Abigail Roux
Zane raised his brow. “Didn’t I say that yesterday?” he asked, forcing
himself to be patient. Somehow.
“You say that like you think I listen to you,” Ty responded instantly, a
smile pulling at his lips.
1866 A.J. Darkholme
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.
4515 Paulo Coelho
A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill.
2665 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
4144 Emily Andrews
Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.
2842 Aspen Baker
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
1625 Aspen Baker
I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.
3733 Orrin Woodward
Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.
2296 Lisa M. Cronkhite
Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.
3373 Charles Olson
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.
1758 Na'ama Yehuda
When hearts speak, they touch each other and transform the deepest sorrow.
2623 Amit Kalantri
The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind.
1975 Marie Sabillo
The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.
2870 Atiq Rahimi
هل نستطيع ، نحن الذين غير جديرين بالكلمة، أن نكون جديرين بالاستماع فقط! كلّ قول هو أمر ضر%
3041 Suzanne Palmieri
The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing.
1315 John Geddes
...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...
2923 Raphael Zernoff
When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
2043 Gary Hopkins
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
2843 Randy Alcorn
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
3502 Bill Maher
New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.
3464 William Shawcross
Elizabeth was so sweet this afternoon trying to show P.B. his sitting room. He became absorbed in some jungle prints along the passage and would not come. The corners of her mouth went down after the third attempt & putting both hands on his shoulders she said angelically: ‘Bertie do listen to me.’ He kissed her and came at once.
2261 Bryant McGill
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain.
3477 Bryant McGill
The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace.
1882 Aspen Baker
Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
3508 A.J. Darkholme
When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves.
3836 Terry Tempest Williams
Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest.
4125 David W. Earle
Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person’s angel.
1188 Edmond Mbiaka
I love listening to wise old people talk about their past experiences. They truly have so many valuable lessons to teach about life, and I never get tired of listening and learning from them.
4037 Emilie Autumn
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.
3064 Ed Cunningham
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
1450 Richard Paul Evans
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
2407 J. Benson
Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange
3708 John Green
For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.
2343 Richard Rohr
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
1517 S.E. Hinton
I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.
1142 Madelaine Standing
In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
4040 Reif Larsen
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
2959 Cornelia Funke
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.
1206 Wess Stafford
If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.
4442 Dean M. Schroeder
People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.
2498 Dejan Stojanovic
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
1730 Marlon James
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
1310 Aaron Woodall
When others cannot find something to hold onto … we can reach out and be their anchor in that moment.
2141 A.J. Darkholme
We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.
3008 Irene Tomkinson
We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.
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