Quotes about Listening
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
- Duke Ellington
At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
- Celine Dion
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.
- William Barclay
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
- William Faulkner
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Take time to pray and listen to God...say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.'
- Kenneth Copeland
Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.
- AB Simpson
Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
- AW Tozer