Listening Quotes - Page 11

• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Relationship, Positive, Success

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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  You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Positive, Hope

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 09, 2014

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• To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.

  Robert C. Murphy

  Unique, Men, Knowing

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• The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Moving, Want, Radius

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• Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

  Sam Walton

  Ideas, Effective Listening, Innovation

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• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, People, Speech

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Age, Getting Older

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• A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Silence, Kitchen Table, Heal

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• 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.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Greatness, Garden

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• Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Wind, Sun

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.387, Obelix Books

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• Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will know how to run your lives. You will know if you have been living life to the full, and if you realize you haven't been, you will know immediately how to correct that state of affairs. As soon as I tell you the key to existence. Are you ready? Are you ready for me to tell you?... Always breathe. That's the basis of life, breathing. That's basically the basis. If you don't breathe, you die.

  Christopher Durang

  Running, Live Life, Keys

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• The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

  John C. Maxwell

  Speech, Speak, Volume

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

  Simon Sinek

  Hearing, Said

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2013

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• Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Jobs, Talking

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• Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

  Joel Spolsky

  Talking, Mind, Principles

  "The StackOverflow Podcast #38" with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, stackoverflow.fogbugz.com. January 22, 2009.

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• The only real way to develop strategy is to use a process where one goes to ‘primary knowing,’ tapping into source and then listening deeply, moment to moment as the path unfolds—walking the path as it is created.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Real, Knowing, Way

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• I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.

  Selma Blair

  Dream, Song, Princess

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• Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

  Wayne Muller

  Heart, Practice, Choices

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• Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.

  Richard Thornton

  Long, Tribes, Said

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• Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

  Vernon Cooper

  Book, Men, Doctors

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• Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Pauline Oliveros (2010). “Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

  Jim George

  People, Important, Acts Of Love

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

  Jim George

  Two, Ears, Should

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.33, Harvest House Publishers

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• I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Art, Home, Thinking

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