Quotes about Listening

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

It is, as some modern Christian thinkers have said, what makes the Church what it really is. For that short time, when we gather as God's guests at God's table, the Church becomes what it is meant to be — a community of strangers who have become guests together and are listening together to the invitation of God.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

know what you mean, we'd say. Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.