“Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.” MenYearsDesireListeningDirectSatisfactionInstantUnhappinessRoutesGratificationTribulationCounterproductive Author:James E. Faust
“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartSaidMotherDesireListeningEarsBottomLastingTrue Words Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.” LoveHeartDesireHealingAttitudeLove YouListeningGenuineHealInspirational LoveListening To Others Author:Christopher Isham
“The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.” WantWellsPersonsDesireKeysListeningTechnique Author:Steve Goodier
“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.” WorldGivingDesireStepsListeningDisciplineEssentialsGiving UpPrejudiceShoesSettingSettingsTemporarySpeakersFrame Of Reference Author:M. Scott Peck
“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.” KnowsLifeDesireFearListeningJonathan Livingston SeagullLivingston SeagullJonathan Seagull Author:Richard Bach
“I am being very humble about the Arab Spring. There's kind of a competition out there, you might have noticed, of who can be the first to say the Arab Spring is going to fail. Everyone says, "I told you so, I told you so about the Muslim Brotherhood." I have no desire to tell anyone anything. I don't know. I'm just listening, watching. It may turn out all these people are right, they may be wrong. They may be right this year and wrong next year, by the way. I'm just trying to listen day to day, figure it out.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsFirstsKindMayMightDesireTurnsNextFailingFiguresListeningSpringCompetitionHumbleBrotherhoodDay To DayNext YearJust ListenArab SpringMuslim BrotherhoodTold You So Author:Thomas Friedman
“You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.” ThinkingWritingRealSometimesDesireAudienceListeningExcitingInstantEnthusiasticGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Carrie Brownstein
“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.” YearsHumansMomentsAgeLastsDesireNightPassionBornHuman BeingsSilenceChildhoodListeningOld AgeUncertainLifelongMomentaryFlux Author:C. S. Lewis
“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.” MenWantI CanFactsAbleLife IsDesireNightGirlInterestSleepWalksDangerFieldsListeningSceneFemaleWestSoldierIntimacyCrewAssaultInvitationsConsumingSailorSpoiledSeducingBatteriesOpen FieldsMisconstrued Author:Sylvia Plath