Listening Quotes

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."

When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

There is no quicker way to earn respect as a leader than being slow to speak. It is called listening and it plays a big role in what I call “The Law of Connection.” How will you know what is important to people unless you ask and listen to the answers? If you prove to be a leader who solicits feedback and pays attention to what’s being said, then you will earn your connection and your followers will respect the guidance you give.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Listen to the sound of silence.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

The road to the heart is the ear

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

But I love you, sir:And when a woman says she loves a man,The man must hear her, though he love her not.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Listen to presences inside poems.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.