Listening Quotes - Page 15

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

Listening is more important than talking.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

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

What else is soul but a listener?

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.