Silent Listening Quotes

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.

The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.