Listening Quotes - Page 2

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

The train will not find you. You must find the train, its pulse, its way of being beyond obvious rock and sway. The train’s pulse is deeper than movement. If you listen, you will hear the song of the train, and when you find the song, you will find the engine, the heart, the blood, the pulse. This is how we create.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

Anyone can talk,   but to listen is a gift,     we should all exchange

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

One of the greatest ways you can affirm value in another person is by giving them the gift of your undivided attention, the kind of attention that says, “I hear what you are saying because I value who you are.” You don’t have to agree with someone to show them their value as a person. Listening demonstrates that any person you meet is worthy of your respect and attention.

There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

Listen to me, there is freedom in love. Every day should feel like independence day

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.

They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Many of us are guilty of not taking enough time to dial into our inner child's voice.

So how long do I have before—what were their names? Carl and Rosa? Yeah, that’s them. How long do I have before they come back?”“I don’t know. Maybe...maybe an hour or so?” My hands felt incredibly small in his.That lopsided grin was back. “I doubt they’d be happy to find me here.”“Why?”His brows rose. “Maybe I’m wrong. They used to coming home to find some strange guy sitting on their couch?”I rolled my eyes.“That’s it, isn’t it?” Rider tugged on my hands, and I rose, letting him pull me down to the couch beside him. He leaned back, sliding one arm around my shoulders and tucking me against his side. “Just par for the course with you, huh?”I didn’t know what to do with my hands since he’d let go of them, so I folded them in my lap. “I’ve never had a...guy here.”Rider stiffened and then he twisted his neck so he was looking at me.Did I seriously admit that out loud? Squeezing my eyes shut, I sighed. “I’m just...going to shut up now.”He chuckled. “Don’t do that. I like listening to you talk.

The only way to know God, the only way to know the other, is to listen. Listening is reaching out into that unknown other self, surmounting your walls and theirs; listening is the beginning of understanding, the first exercise of

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Just because someone doesn't respond...doesn't mean they are not Listening.

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.

Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.

I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter spoke to me about ladders today. Life is full of lessons for those who listen.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Listen with the will to learn.

From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...

God's Word makes it very clear that the state of our hearts determines the quality of our "listening ears.

Those who have a listening heart can hear the song of silence.

Silent is an anagram of listen.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information.

He listens when I talk.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.

In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well, not even the young anymore—-need to obey. Funny, because the root of the word obey is from the French verb meaning “to listen, or to give ear to.” It was never intended as a militant word, but one of hearing, of understanding. Of getting it. For a world obsessed with staying in constant communication, we aren’t really very good listeners.

To open eyes when others close themTo hear when others do not wish to listenTo look when others turn awayTo seek to understand when others give upTo rouse oneself when others acceptTo continue to struggle when one is not the strongestTo cry out when others keep silent…

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

Always listen to your soul... it speaks to you, only if you listen!

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.

I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.