Quotes about Listening
The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.
- Robert Brault
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
- Robert Brault
I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.
- Robert Brault
Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.
- Robert Kiyosaki
He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
- LM Montgomery
Am i talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can stop when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.
- LM Montgomery
Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.
- LM Montgomery
We try to reach the heart of God without listening to the Word of God.
- Larry Crabb
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
- Abraham Lincoln
Women are emotional creatures. You have to listen to them to figure out what they are saying. Show your wife steadfast loyalty.
- Adrian Rogers
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
- Desmond Tutu
But I'm afraid I'm bad at comforting; I can listen all right, but I can hardly ever find anything to say.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer