Listening Quotes

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Clive Staples Lewis

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

Listening is a form of accepting.

Stella Terrill Mann

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Arthur Baldwin

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca, Epistles

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew

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.

Simone Weil

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Author Unknown

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Karl Menninge

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Catherine de Hueck

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Atwell

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Dorothy Sarnoff

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Anon.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon