Quotes about Listening

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.

I am listening, I am diligently trying to collect all the brains that are borrowable in order that I may not make more blunders than it is inevitable that a man should make who has great limitations of knowledge and capacity.

[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

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

[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.