Listening Quotes

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Listen with your heart, you will understand.

Seungri, are you listening? I love you.

The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

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

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

Tell yourself whatever you need to hear, you're the only one listening.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.