Margaret Deland Quotes

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

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

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Give us grace to listen well.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.