Quotes
Quotes about Listening
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.
Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. -Sue Bender.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. -J. Isham.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -A. A. Milne.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
