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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. — Susan Jacoby

In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard. — Madelaine Standing

Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c. — Plato

The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life. — Paulo Coelho

I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening — Jenny B. Jones

Death's life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights — Munia Khan

Winning or losing achieves the same result
change. — Shannon L. Alder

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen. — Shannon L. Alder

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead. — Maggie Stiefvater

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. — George Bernard Shaw

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just can't think of anything. — Haruki Murakami

After listening to so called experts it's not until you reach the end of the road that you begin to realise you've been taken down the wrong road. — Lou Silluzio

You learn a lot when listening to people. Always keep your ears open. You never know the impact they will have on your life. — David Mezzapelle

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

The art of life is loving and listening to one another. — Akiane Kramarik

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres, — Dick Allen

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. — Donald Miller

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person. — Alan Alda

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine

Listening is a gift that generates the quality of life and it helps us to grow in life. — Euginia Herlihy

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it — Simon Barnes

Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive. — Barbara Demick

Listening is just as important in one's home life as in the world of business. — Dale Carnegie

Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything. — Amy Leigh Mercree

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music. — Tom Harrell

The great movement of the spiritual life is from a deaf, nonhearing life to a life of listening. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The only thing worth listening to is your conscience. — Saru Singhal

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself — Rachel Naomi Remen

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all. — Samuel Louis Gilmore

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? — Jim Berg

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions. — Krista Tippett