Adventure Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the…

— Mark Nepo

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

— Barry Trotz

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

— Lester Bowie

“We have to listen to understand in the same way we want to be understood.”

— Brené Brown

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

— Michael Arden

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear…

— Laura Riding

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

“It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.”

— Mark Nepo

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what…

— Laozi

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

— Julian Treasure

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

— Matt Besser