Quotes about Listening

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.

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.

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.

Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.

We try to reach the heart of God without listening to the Word of God.

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.