Quotes about Listening

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

Everything slows down when we listen and stop trying to fix the unfixable.

If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days—listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold.

And while everyone has to make a living and show up for family, listening is optional. You have to make a conscious decision to listen harder.

All it takes is one safe person to listen, to hear, to noodge us to start over and not give up.

You unconscious can't work when youare breathing down it's neck. You'll sit there going, Are you done in there yet? Are you done in there yet?. But it is trying to tell you nicely, Shut up and go away.

When Pat Holt strings together a list of words not to overuse—"Actually, totally, absolutely, completely, continually, constantly, continuously, literally, really, unfortunately, ironically, incredibly, hopefully, finally"—she's not being a stickler for formality and grammar. Instead she's reminding us that words matter, that poor word use is just a red flag for someone who wants to ignore you.