L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.”
“Listening begins with being silent.”
“Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen”
“Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.”
“Listening can heal wounds.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
“Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.”
“Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.”
“Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.”
“Listening doesn't always equate to hearing.
Hearing doesn't always lead to understanding
but active listening helps each person
truly "see" the other.”
“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”
Source: The Prague Cemetery
“Listening fast, and caring immediately, is a skill in itself.”
Source: The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
“Listening increases the chances that you’ll hear your customers’ real problems and can effectively solve them, resulting in happier customers.”
Source: Happy Customers
“Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.”
“Listening is a generosity, kindness. At its highest, it's a revolutionary act.”
“Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.”
Source: Understanding the Mind: Lorig, an Explanation of the Nature and Functions of the Mind
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.”
Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
“Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world”
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or impressing the other, or if you are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or if you are debating about whether the word being spoken is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters may have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening, in other words, is a primitive act of love, in which a person gives self to another’s word, making self accessible and vulnerable to that word.”
Source: Count It All Joy
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.”
“Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.”
“Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.”
“Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it.”
“Listening is an act of community, which takes space, time and silence.
Reading is a means of listening.
Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shout rush of the media. You take in what you can and want to take in, not what they shove at you fast and hard and loud in order to overwhelm and control you. Reading a story, you may be told something, but you’re not being sold anything. And though you’re usually alone when you read, you are in communion with another mind. You aren’t being brainwashed or co-opted or used; you’ve joined in an act of the imagination. […]
Books may not be “books”, of course, they may not be ink on wood pulp but a flicker of electronics in the palm of a hand. Incoherent and commercialized and worm-eaten with porn and hype and blather as it is, electronic publication offers those who read a strong new means of active community. The technology is not what matters. Words are what matter. The sharing of words. The activation of imagination through the reading of words.”
Source: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
“Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.”
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)”
Source: Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
“Listening is an effect. Communication is cause.”
“Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.”
“Listening is an important key to HEARING.”
“Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.”
“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”
“Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.”
“Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.”
“Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”
“Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.”
Source: Teaching and Researching: Listening
“Listening is, indeed, a fundamental value of Benedictine spirituality. More than that, Benedictine listening is life lived in stereo. The simple fact is that everybody lives listening to something. But few live a life attuned on every level. Benedictine spirituality doesn't allow for selective perception; it insists on breadth, on a full range of hearing, on total alert. We have to learn to hear on every level at once if we are really to become whole. The problem is that most of us are deaf in at least one ear.”
“Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.”
“Listening is love in action.”
“Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.”
“Listening is more important than talking.”
“Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.”
“Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.”
“Listening is more than hearing sounds; it is the act of giving full attention to another being or to a moment. It involves suspending our own narrative long enough to truly receive what is offered. ... It is surprising how often we listen with the intent to respond rather than the intent to understand. We mentally prepare our reply while the other person is still speaking”
“Listening is necessary. It can open doors of victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.”
“Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.”
Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization