Being Quiet And Listening Quotes

#1. It's wonderful how much you can learn by just being quiet and listening. Sometimes you even learn the truth - or what seems to be the truth.

Avi

#2. I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#3. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.

Initially NO

#4. "Failure" isn't a word I really use.

Sebastian Roche

#5. Beach houses along short sandy streets. He can feel her bare forarm brushing his, and it's strange she's being so quiet. He glances down at her and she smiles up at him as if, in his silence, he's been telling a long story and she is simply listening to it.

Andre Dubus III

#6. Either way, everything will be fine, she smiled, and for a little while I was pulled out of my anxious, stunted brain cloud.

Tina Fey

#7. My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

Arthur Hertzberg

#8. You have to live in a state of thinking your painting is good, or you couldn't do it.

Roger De Grey

#9. And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

John Motson

#10. In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up ... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.

Jim Rowe

#11. Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to -
What is Said,
What is Unsaid,
and
What is meant
With your Eyes, Ears and Heart

Drishti Bablani

#12. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

Steve Goodier

#13. Even if no one is listening to you or you are being persecuted, go on speaking, do not keep quiet

Sunday Adelaja

#14. When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

#16. Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.

Krista Tippett

#17. People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz

#18. Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It's not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions.

Karen Ehman

#19. And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman

Daniel Defoe