Attentively Listening Quotes

#1. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

David Whyte

#2. Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

John Bruna

#3. Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Jose Marti

#4. Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being!

Assegid Habtewold

#5. He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat, for all of life? No machine could run that long without a stumble. Ask not if the beating cranks are going to jam, but when.

Giulio Tononi

#6. I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else.

Steve Martin

#7. 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

#8. I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Matthew Rhys

#9. If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance.

Jack Canfield

#10. There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#11. He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.

Lauren Groff

#12. A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world. 2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lectures to the Congregation in Barcelona

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

Tom Harrell

#14. I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Clara Schumann

#15. When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

David Servant

#16. In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

Bernard Jensen

#17. I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

Neil Gaiman

#18. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

Maya Angelou

#19. Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out."
"Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.

D.L. Orton

#20. I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne