Quotes about Listening

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

When the good Lord put a burden on his heart, he listened.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

In return, I gave him a sounding board for his frustrations.

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

His confidence was enviable and maddening. Most of the time she didn't want him to solve or contradict her worries, she just needed him to listen and agree with her on the awfulness at hand. This was a principle of marriage she'd explained many times.

Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I've not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.

Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

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