L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.”
“Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.”
“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.”
“Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.”
“Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.”
“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening”
Source: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice
“Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.”
“Listening is one of the finest ways to demonstrate our love for another human being. How many marriages could be saved, friendships healed, careers made, and opportunities enjoyed if people would simply stop what they are doing and listen deeply to what another person has to say. If practiced by everyone, this principle could be a world-changer!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Listening is one of the forms of love.”
“Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.”
“Listening is one thing; however, ACTIVE listening is quite another. The first is a passive act which does not require great involvement, whereas, the latter is a consciously aware and deliberately focused effort to actively participate in the conversation.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.”
Source: Teaching and Researching: Listening
“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”
“Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.”
Source: The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?”
“Listening is the bridge between pain and understanding.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Listening is the essence of anything.”
“Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response.”
Source: The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource
“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
“Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.”
“Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.”
“Listening is the new prospecting.”
Source: Duct Tape Selling: Think Like a Marketer-Sell Like a Superstar
“Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.”
“Listening is the quiet soul of storytelling”
Source: American Mother
“Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.”
“Listening is two part, attention and thinking. The latter is what a lot of us don't do”
“Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.”
“Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!”
“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”
Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to what is said,
what is unsaid, and
what is meant
with your eyes, ears and heart.”
“Listening. It's not something for which Protestants are usually well known. In our activist piety we have tended toward prophetic pronouncements rather than quiet listening. As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
Source: Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
“Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.”
“Listening, more than speaking, is the truest mark of an intelligent mind.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.”
“Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.”
Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.”
“Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.”
“Listening to a good song is usually consolation for being unable to enjoy silence.”
“Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop like R&B. This kind of made me feel a little bit better, because I realized it was all the same, you know. There's no difference. It's just music.”
“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”
“Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.”
“Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.”
“Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.”
“Listening to albums and records is not the best way to percept Verka Serduchka. Live shows are the place where you can feel that specific atmosphere, that is not going to be the same ever.”
“Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.”
“Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.”