Sentences with phrase «listen to people speaking»

Still, the study of those languages along with listening to people speak from different geological, socio - economic, and educational areas, gave me a sense for how different everyone expresses themselves, not only from one culture to another, but also as individuals within those cultures.

The jury system, he noted, depends on jurors coming to court and sitting down all day, «listening to people speaking, listening and thinking about what they are hearing and assimilating it and then assessing it.»

He listened to people speak about toughening gun laws.

Its award - winning work includes technologies that can not only listen to a person speaking but also read out other unrelated texts in that very same voice.

Not exact matches

However, active listening as a leader isn't just about listening to people when they happen to speak with you.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum, Cook said that what is missing from society is that there aren't enough people willing to listen, understand, and participate.

Try leaning in towards the person who is speaking and tilt your head slightly as you listen to them speak.

Whenever Laurence Fink speaks his mind, which is often, people of all stripes tend to listen.

Great communicators know that nonverbal communication speaks louder than verbal communication; they listen with their eyes and ears, and pay attention to people's posture, hand movements, and eye contact because these also send very powerful messages.

Coleman suggests that every time you give a speech, recognize that you have three audiences: the people sitting in the chairs listening to your message, the event coordinator who booked you to speak, and the people sponsoring the event.

«When you're in a meeting and everybody's speaking up, it's critical to make sure you're listening to the right person,» Greer says.

Because if you're going to excel in many fields, no amount of listening skills or handwritten notes gets you off the hook from having to speak in front of people.

Confident people speak assertively because they know that it's difficult to get people to listen to you if you can't deliver your ideas with conviction.

People who have been fighting for this for too long, others who were never comfortable enough to openly talk about their experiences with gun violence, or still others who were never listened to when opening up about their experiences with gun violence or were afraid to speak out — these are the people we are fighting with anPeople who have been fighting for this for too long, others who were never comfortable enough to openly talk about their experiences with gun violence, or still others who were never listened to when opening up about their experiences with gun violence or were afraid to speak out — these are the people we are fighting with anpeople we are fighting with and for.

I'm in a place where I can speak out, where I have the ability to speak out and make people listen, to cause that difference, so it is a stress that I take on very willingly.

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

I've been around the world and met a lot of talented emcees in various different countries and I've listened to people rap in Czech, Japanese, German and countless other languages that I can't speak.

Consequently, when he clears his throat to speak, people tend to sit up and listen, hoping to catch even a momentary glimpse into his deadly accurate crystal ball.

In the years leading up to last fall's boom of interest in crypto, Silver says that he used to be heckled at every conference he spoke at, but that now, «rather than being booed off the stage and being told that everything was a utility token, I was wrong, that I was killing innovation, and that I was this horrible person,» people are actually listening.

He addressed the opposition lightheartedly early in the talk by saying, «I normally go [speak to] people who wan na listen to me speak.»

As I grew in Christ, I began to «look at the heart», and to listen to the themes that were within a person's words «for out of the abundance / overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks».

We need more people like you to speak out and give us the facts instead of listening to those that speak from the sidelines but not willing to see the point.

He is not trying to offend anyone, he merely speaks to the religious in the same tone they speak to us, as in informed person trying to show the less informed why they should listen.

In that thread to Lymis people talked about how you never know who's reading or what impact your words will have when reflected on in years to come... Well, I * was * that person, and I read and listened quietly, and when I spoke and disagreed, I remembered later what was said in response.

If they want to talk about family, about their happy memories, about their painful memories, or about who will win the superbowl, I hope that person will listen and speak with them.

After reading Klaus Bockmuehl's book, Listening to the God Who Speaks: Reflections on God's Guidance from Scripture and the Lives of God's People, the conclusion one would have to draw is that if you're not hearing God, you're deaf.

Speaking during News Hour she said: «Really listen to what your child is saying, whether they're talking about the reason they feel so down and it might be hard to listen to but I think it's really important that we keep listening to our young people.

Maybe we find the words out there, in the marketplace, a coffee shop, a stadium, where people aren't dressed for church and can speak their own true words (if we'll listen) about the flesh, their fears, the blessing and curse of family, the craziness, not to mention dreams, fantasies, habits and memories.

Many people don't even speak to God, much less listen to what he has to say.

It is the life in which one learns to speak the truth «no matter whether a whole people is listening, or only a few individuals,» and learns to speak it quietly and clearly through having been in hell and having returned to the light of day again.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

That «still, small voice» you speak of is definitely there — but it appears that most people aren't listening to God anymore.

Listen, over and over and over again (don't make me go in and count them — probably 100s of times) your book says the «The «LORD GOD» spoke to Moses and said: «blah blabbity blah», delineating each law that was supposed to be transmitted to the people.

Listen to all the name dropping and nostalgia... Pastors tend to think people care about the people who write the books and speak at the conferences they go to.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

At a Sunday Rector's Forum, I listened to thoughtful people speak about the most pressing social issues of our time.

So until people stop listening to dessert, and eating their vegetables and lean mean — metaphorically speaking — you'll won't have as much of the music you're looking for.

I did some research into how the word theopneustos was used in other Greek literature of the time, and without fail, it is used of poets and philosophers who seem to speak with a certain passion and urgency that makes people listen and obey what they are saying.

The Net empowers the kooks and well - intentioned fanatics as well as the charitable people who are quick to listen and slow to speak.

People must have the technical means both to speak and to listen if they are to participate in the process of governing themselves, and a major role of government lies in securing and protecting these means.

I was speaking with a friend who has spent some time in the Contemporary Christian Music industry (they wouldn't want me to use their name here, but if you've spent any time listening to CCM, you'd be familiar with it) who let me in on a little secret: A lot of Christian songs aren't written by people who would claim to be Christian.

It's been humbling and enlightening to realize just how much I can learn about myself and other people when I listen more and speak less.

James Madison, that staunch advocate of free speech, insisted that the right of people to speak and to listen is not an end in itself, but is a means of achieving «popular government,» by which he meant the democratic process whereby people have the opportunity to take a real part in the decisions which affect their lives.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Each week, forty or fifty million adults and many young people in the formative years listen to a spiritual leader speak on something which (hopefully) touches people where they live.

We've had so many disastrous events over the last few months and we've learnt in our church that we need to be open so that people can come and find space, and they can find God who's speaking to them all the time if they would listen.»

And the prophet of God wrote it just that way so the writer was commanding the people to listen attentively and reverently and understandingly because these were Gods very own words that he was about to speak.

Anything that makes people actually think for themselves, while listening to the strange things spoken in sermons, can't be bad.

We as the church shouldn't be above humbling ourselves to listen to others with different views, because as we listen the Spirit may well speak to us about the person and where they're at.

The presence of a significant degree of these characteristics indicates that a person probably is a natural growth facilitator: warm caring, nonphoneyness, robust esteem (of oneself and therefore of others), accurate understanding (empathy), nonmanipulative outgoingness, and honest acceptance of others — the ability to listen and speak the truth in love.