The Gift Of Listening Quotes

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Catherine Doherty

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

Eric Clapton

#5. 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

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

Nikki Giovanni

#7. 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

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

Stephen Levine

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

E. M. Forster

#13. 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

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

Solomon

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

Paul Isaacs

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

Euginia Herlihy

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

Harriet Lerner

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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