Listening Is A Gift Quotes

#1. Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#2. They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

E. M. Forster

#5. To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Anwar Sadat

#6. When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

John L. Casti

#7. Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

Angelica Hopes

#8. For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

Isabelle Huppert

#9. Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.

Gerald Jampolsky

#10. May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Alexander Pope

#12. The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Stephen Levine

#13. Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. I stood like Adam in his lonely garden
On that first morning, shaken out of sleep,
Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves,
Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.

Mary Oliver

#15. Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

Morgan Freeman

#16. I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Nikki Giovanni

#17. Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Dejan Stojanovic

#18. Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

Graham Taylor

#19. Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Eric Clapton

#20. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

Maurice Sendak

#21. Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

Harriet Lerner

#22. Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life.

Kristen Ashley

#23. A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

Jean Vanier

#24. It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

Bryant McGill

#25. With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Catherine Doherty

#26. [I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of poo around? I mean, you get opposable thumbs and this is what you do with them?]

Kevin Hearne

#27. The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donna Tartt

#28. The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.

Cargill Gilston Knott

#29. Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange

J. Benson

#30. If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Malcolm Gladwell

#31. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

Gordie Gillespie

#32. Listening and acknowledging we are all different is the greatest gift to share with one another

Paul Isaacs

#33. If you create a new party ... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

Li Peng

#34. Give me the gift of a listening heart.

Solomon

#35. I never knew, not then, not now, whether Cassie thought she had hung up, or whether she wanted to hurt me, or whether she wanted to give me one last gift, one last night listening to her breathe.

Tana French

#36. No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

Doug Dawson

#37. I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers. I view myself as an independent, critical intellectual, as someone who tries to stimulate thought on the left and the right, to encourage intellectual evolution.

Tariq Ramadan

#38. To love means you also trust.

Joan Baez