Quotes about Listening
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
All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.
- Joyce Meyer