Listening To Others Quotes

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel 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 dance of love is begun again.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah."

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.