Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
Interpretation
Listening often holds more importance than speaking.
This quote emphasizes the significance of listening in communication. It suggests that by paying attention to others and understanding their perspectives, we can gain valuable insights and foster stronger connections, which can often be more beneficial than merely expressing our own thoughts.
In practice
In a workshop on effective communication, you might use the quote to encourage participants to improve their listening skills.
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.
By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
When I find myself in times of trouble _x000D_ Mother Mary comes to me, _x000D_ speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
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