Quotes of: Listens Keyword

Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upo...

The Listeners and Other Poems

Sometimes all that’s needed to heal a wounded soul and lift a sagging spirit is one loving listener, for at its core, listening is love–love that sacrifices its need to be heard in favor of hearing, a desire to lecture in favor of learning, an op...

The Monday Morning Club

When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn i...

Carl R. Rogers

[first lines] Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally...

High Fidelity

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers ...

High Fidelity

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things a...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

There are five ways in which to become wise: be silent, listen, remember, grow older and study.

Arabian

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Biblical

He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.

Bosnian

Listen to what they say of the others and you will know what they say about you.

Cuban

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Different Seasons

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.

The Earthsea Trilogy

...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

A Familiar Rain

My birthday is on a holiday. I just have to wait until I die and they commemorate me.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

The easiest way to get from point A to point B is with a vehicle that runs on alphabet soup.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?

High Fidelity

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'

Adele

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Requiem for a Nun

Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

Look into the stillness

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred