Quotes about Listening
My life is a listening, His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.
— Thomas Merton
Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has "problems about how to believe.
— Kathleen Norris
Listening to all words--the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture--can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.
— Kathleen Norris
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
— Calvin Coolidge
Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.
— Carl Jung
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
— George Bernard Shaw
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
— George Clooney
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
— Robert Frost
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
— Francis de Sales
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
— Jacqueline Novogratz