Listening Quotes - Page 2

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

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

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

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.

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

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 know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.