Listening Quotes

Listening Quotes & Sayings

These listening quotes and listening sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - Sir John Lubbock


The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. - Henry Graham Greene


Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore


Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. - Lewis Thomas


If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell


Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating 'heart talk' frequency. 'Heart talk' is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. - Sara Paddison


I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. - Edgar Allan Poe


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Green Ingersoll


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