#Listening Quotes

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”

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

“Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.”

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

“Listen to presences inside poems.”

“Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.”

“Learn to speak by listening.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”

“The quieter we become, the more we can hear.”

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

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“Listen. Don't explain or justify.”

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

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

“Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.”

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

“It is the disease of not listening......that I am troubled with.”

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”

“I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.”

“I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with.”

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

“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.”