Quotes About Truly Listening

#1. I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening

Jenny B. Jones

#2. I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

Jeff Daniels

#3. In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness.

Jack Kornfield

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

John Bruna

#5. There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. (One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife,

Elizabeth Kolbert

#7. Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

#8. You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.

Stephen Covey

#9. Love's value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.

Jeffrey Fry

#10. Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.

Piet Mondrian

#12. To truly understand a person, stop talking and start listening.

Amey Hegde

#13. I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

Joseph Kosinski

#14. Life is too short to be stuck with the "would haves" "could haves" and "should haves." It's on you to make sure you live every second as if it was your last.

Cara Alwill Leyba

#15. I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Antonio Tabucchi

#16. Listening is one of the most important things a brand can do online. If your brand is just broadcasting its own agenda, it isn't truly engaging in a conversation.

Jeremy Goldman

#17. I've missed the silence of you listening to me." Shahrzad attempted a weak smile. "No one listens to me as you do." His expression turned quizzical. "You don't wait to speak," she clarified. "You truly listen." "Only to you," Khalid replied gently.

Renee Ahdieh

#18. If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

James Altucher

#19. It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

Tommy Lee

#20. Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Mason Cooley

#21. I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

Betty Hill

#22. We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.

Thomas Gordon

#23. If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.

Lanie Lane

#24. Passepartout.' 'Passepartout suits me,' responded Mr. Fogg. 'You are well recommended to me; I hear a good report of you. You know my conditions?' 'Yes, monsieur.' 'Good! What time is it?' 'Twenty-two minutes after eleven,' returned Passepartout, drawing

Anonymous

#25. Like maybe he really, truly believes I'm worth listening to, worth saving.

Matthew Quick

#26. Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family.

Michael O'Brien

#27. We can all look at life and agree that there are some parts that have no purpose - like neckties or cats.

Matt Chandler

#28. If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

Stephen Malkmus

#29. On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

Jon Landau

#30. True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. Whoever said death was fair?

Rick Riordan

#32. Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

Joshua Harris

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

Bryant McGill

#34. DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.

TyDi

#35. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

Alison Croggon

#36. Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

Anne Graham Lotz

#37. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Steve Goodier