Quotes About Attentive Listening

#1. Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

Chungliang Al Huang

#2. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

Travis Bradberry

#3. In this sense, the methodological form that comes into play here is ultimately quite simple: Scripture is interpreted by Scripture. Scripture interprets itself. Attentive listening to Scripture's own internal self-interpretation is very characteristic of Redemptoris Mater.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#4. Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

Brian Tracy

#5. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.

Thomas Merton

#6. The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

John Heider

#8. I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

Alan Alda

#9. Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Isocrates

#10. The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

Curtis Hutson

#11. Mac, are you even listening?" Nick's voice sounded annoyed. "You used to be a lot more attentive."
"I used to be banging you too," I informed him absently. "I found your opinions about my love life a lot more interesting then.

S.E. Harmon

#12. The better the questions, the more attentive the listening, the richer the reflection, the better the solutions, and the deeper is the learning.

Julia Sloan

#13. There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#14. When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

Sun Tzu

#15. He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none of us resist.

Wilkie Collins

#16. I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

Katherine Helmond

#17. The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.

Ellery Queen

#18. Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.

Kevin Hart

#20. Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

#21. When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

George Whitefield

#22. But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

A.E. Van Vogt

#23. Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

Ryan Holmes

#25. The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Craig Thompson

#26. Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

Donald O. Clifton