Listening Quotes - Page 18

• When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Here I Am, Voice, Judging

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.19, New World Library

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• Success Comes from listening to your customer.

  Richard Branson

  Customers

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• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Profound, Suffering, Vision

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• There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Differences, Silence, Ifs

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• By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

  Julia Cameron

  Path, Creator, Right Path

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.127, Souvenir Press

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• Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

  Brian Tracy

  Talking, Habit, Dominating

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• Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

  Bill Drayton

  Skills, Empathy, Understanding

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• Listening is love in action.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Action

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• There is a craft and a power in listening.

  Glenn Gould

  Crafts

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• I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Love Is, Bless

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.15, Penguin

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• I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Song, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Space, Despair, Complacency

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Important, Buttons, Hot

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.74, John Wiley & Sons

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• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  Carla Bley

  Important, Receiving, Music Is

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• The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

  Smokey Robinson

  White, Black, Firsts

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice of meditation-or inner listening-in the poses and meditations, as well as all day long. It's a matter of listening inwardly for guidance all the time, and then daring enough and trusting enough to do as you are prompted to do.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Moving, Yoga, Order

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• Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Exercise, House, Honor

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.169, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Self, Advice

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• Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Reading, Diaries

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• Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey.

  Pope Francis

  Journey, People, Church

  "Pope Francis Gives Candid Speech On 'Exodus' Of Followers From The Catholic Church" by Philip Pullella, www.businessinsider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

  John Pilger

  War, Reading, Two

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• The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Song, Might, Understood

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.193, Harvard Business Review Press

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• If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

  Andy Albright

  Believe, People, Ego

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• I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Culture, Records, England

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