Listening Quotes - Page 11

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

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.

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

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

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.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Before you speak, listen.