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“The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.”

Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

“So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.”

Long Remember Willing Listening Experiments Opera

Author:Beverly Sills

“Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.”

Ifs Body Motivational Awareness Willing Communication Listening Communicate Intuition Mind Body Spirit Mind Body And Spirit Creative Visualization Healing The Body Body Awareness

Book:The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

Source: The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience.”

Ifs Men Attitude Willing Listening Men And Women Ideals Assuming Meetings Personal Experiences Obeying Communicators

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.”

People Two Real Understanding Willing Listening Empathy Dialogue Certainty

Author:David Bohm

“If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.”

Ifs Persons Waiting Effects Changed Willing Listening Connections Pauses

Author:Alan Alda

“I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.”

Mind I Can Form Asks Watches Willing Ready Listening Crowds

Author:Bill Burr

“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”

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Author:Alan Alda