We Listen To Reply Quotes

#1. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#2. I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in.

Brandon Routh

#3. Teaching ... can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

Marie Clay

#4. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.

Stephen Covey

#6. Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

Rumi

#7. Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

Wassily Kandinsky

#8. The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

#10. Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

Etel Adnan

#11. To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

John Geddes

#13. Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

#14. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

Sharon Creech

#15. I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

Karen Elson

#16. It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Ossie Davis

#17. You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.

John Green

#18. [She] did not reply. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to listen to what her bewildered heart was telling her.

Cornelia Funke

#19. Candide, terrified, amazed, desperate, all bloody, all palpitating, said to himself: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Well,

Voltaire

#20. And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

Arthur Bryant

#21. Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

Penelope Leach

#22. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Paul Tournier

#23. Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#24. They don't want people to listen, they want people to agree," I reply. "And you shouldn't bully people into agreeing with you.

Veronica Roth

#25. I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

Rosamund Pike

#26. Be patient when you listen, be gracious when you reply, and be wise when you act.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#28. I also realized that there's a difference between soul mates and true love."
"Is one type of love better than the other? I don't know, but I'm lucky enough to have found them both.

Lisa De Jong