Listening Quotes

Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

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.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.