Explore Quotes on Listening

Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through the garden or the fields, listening to the sermon preached by the flowers, the trees, the meadows, the sun, the sky, and the whole universe. You will find that they exhort you to love and praise God; that they excite you to extol the greatness of the Sovereign Architect Who has given them their being.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us _x000D__x000D_talking about getting guns out of the schools. _x000D__x000D_How can we tell them to solve problems without violence, _x000D__x000D_if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems _x000D__x000D_without violence?

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. ... It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.

Silence is more musical than any song.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living every moment of your life. Walking, sleeping, sitting, talking, listening - it has to become a kind of climate. A relaxed person remains in it. A person who goes on dropping the past remains meditative.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

Listen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.