Max Lucado Quotes

Everybody hears, but few listen.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

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

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

I think it is really important that I am always listening.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

If you got ears, you gotta listen.

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.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.