LISTENING QUOTES
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey,
“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
“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.”
― Criss Jami
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
― Zeno of Citium
“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
“There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.”
― Criss Jami
“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.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.”
― Alfred Brendel
“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
― Ralph G. Nichols
“Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening”
― Terence McKenna
“…most people in the world don’t really use their brains to think. And people who don’t think are the ones who don’t listen to others.”
― Haruki Murakami
“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
― Meg Wolitzer
“That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.”
― Dean F
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions.”
― Amit Kalantri
“The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.”
― Fr. Thomas Dubay
“When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people’s intentions,
We don’t listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.”
― Mouloud Benzadi
“When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!”
― Carl R. Rogers
“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
― Vernon Howard
“Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden”
― S.M. Boyce
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.”
― Roy Bennett
“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”
― Epictetus
“Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.”
― Dejan Stojanovic
“There’s more than one way to tell each other things, and there’s more than one way to listen, too.”
― Katherine Hannigan
“We understood what was necessary -humans often fail at listening, as if their stubbornness will convince the truth to change, as if they have that kind of power. They do, however, understand forceful things, cruelties–they obey those.”
― Akwaeke Emezi
“When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.”
― Frank McCourt
“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you’d meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”
― Anthony Kiedis
“For most of my life I’ve been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.”
― Steve Rasnic Tem
“In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.”
― Vironika Tugaleva
“Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
“When we listen, we hear someone into existence.”
― Laurie Buchanan
“Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life.”
― H. Norman Wright
“It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey
“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“We stay the same as we’ve always been, keeping to the path we’ve walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.”
― A.J. Darkholme
“Always listen to your soul and feel the purity of that moment – no matter how sad or joyful – because it will speak to you further… a healing an understanding, a perspective or more will come out of it. Only because you listened.”
― Angie karan
“This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.”
― Chris Cleave
“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.”
― Germain G. Glidden
“They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“Always listen to your soul… it speaks to you, only if you listen!”
― Angie karan
“Listening to someone talk about what they care about isn’t a fake-boyfriend thing, Kenz. It’s a decent-person thing.”
― Becky Dean
“We all give away our goods to soon…
And we’re waiting for something to say, instead of listening”
― Raccoon
“If the ticking second hands in my head are never counting up to something but always seem to be counting down to something, I don’t need to reset the clock. Rather, I need to reset how I’m listening to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.”
― Kevin Kelly
“Life is constantly teaching us lessons. The question is are we listening, learning and applying them?”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
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