Listening Quotes - Page 8

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

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.

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.