Listen To Respond Quotes

#1. Listen to understand rather than listen to respond.

Barack Obama

#2. You can pray to the angels and they will listen, but the best way to call them, I am told, is to laugh. Angels respond to delight, because that is what they are made of. In fact, when peoples minds are clouded by anger or hatred, no angel can reach them.

Michael Jackson

#3. With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Tom Peters

#4. How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#5. If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

Jon Voight

#6. I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

Hosni Mubarak

#7. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.

Gina Greenlee

#8. When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.

Gary Chapman

#9. God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.

Adam Hamilton

#10. Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

Jean Stapleton

#11. Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Anne Lamott

#12. Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

David Jeremiah

#13. With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

Haylie Duff

#14. Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Cathy Moriarty

#15. Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

Daniel Goleman

#16. Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Ray Charles

#17. I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

Hosni Mubarak

#18. The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

Fred Rogers

#19. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#20. Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.

Raji Lukkoor

#21. Listen to the beating of your own heart. It is speaking to you now, waiting for you to hear it and respond to its call of love. - Anne Kubitsky

Anne O. Kubitsky

#22. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Richard Carlson

#23. Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Charlotte Bunch

#24. Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Andrew Mason