Listening Quotes & Sayings

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In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fouth practicing, the fifth teaching others.

Ibn Gabirol 1020C

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Achard

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.

Brian G. Jett

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Mother Teresa

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.

LEO BUSCAGLIA

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Turkish Proverb

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Turkish Proverb

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Edward Hoagland

In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fouth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.

Ibn Gabirol 1020C

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Ingersoll

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.

Brian G. Jett

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.

Leo F. Buscaglia

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase

Brian Koslow

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

Listening is a form of accepting.

Stella Terill Mann

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs.

John Sexton

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Marcelene Cox

In silence lies the ability to listen; to listen to ourselves, to others and to God. Listening is a lost art. Without it we cannot communicate, we cannot relate to each other and so we cannot live life meaningfully. We need to learn to listen. Sitting in silence allows us to listen to ourselves and to understand. This silence can heal. The worries, the pain can be healed when we listen. Spiritual medicine is ever-present in the soul. Whenever we need it, to whatever extent we need it, we can find it within.

Unknown

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time

Sir J Lubbock

Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant thinking, harmonized with active listening, and supported with your conscious action - will clear the path for your Miracles.

Sumner M. Davenport

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Brian Koslow

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.

Brian Koslow

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Bryant H. McGill

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

Italian Proverb

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