listening

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance.

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

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it__ an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Most of the successful people I__e known are the ones who do more listening that talking.

He kept telling and I kept repeating __ Know_ sometimes people doesn__ need answers, they just need you to hear them what they say, make them that they are heard, Vijay was like that, he doesn__ need any one sympathizing to him, he just needed people to listen to him.

Paradoxically, admitting your own powerlessness can free you from the need to fix everything and allow us to be truly present to the other person, and to listen. A cartoon in The New Yorker had one woman saying testily to her friend, 'There's no point in our being friends if you won't let me fix you.

Selective listening is more poisonous than the snake bite.Either you listen or you don't listen. Choice is yours!!!

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

It takes courage to listen to your inner knowing _ But once you hear that knowing, making a decision becomes fairly easy.