Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Some of My Favorite Quotes about Listening

Quotes about listening

“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies shown to David. 
Isaiah 55:3

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Listening is a hug you give with your mind.
Barbara Nixon

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.
Elizabeth O’Connor

People don’t listen to understand.
They listen to reply.
The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
Stephen Covey

Try to listen carefully that you might not have to speak.
 Quaker saying

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.
David A. Cooper

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
La Rochefoucauld (1600’s)

I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth.
Anonymous

We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa

Listening – the language of love for everyone.

Anonymous

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