Listening Quotes

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

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”

“The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.”

“Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.”

“The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.”

“I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”

“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”

“The road to the heart is the ear”

“I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”

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

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

“When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”

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

“The Inspiration You SeekIs Already Within You.Be Silent And Listen.”

“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”

“There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear”

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”

“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”

“Listen to the sound of waves within you.”

“No more words. Hear only the voice within.”

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

“Hear the other side.”

“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.”

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