Quotes About Listening

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school '90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jer. 29:12–13)

Listen to taciturnity. It has too much to utterance.

The worst feeling between two people is misunderstanding.

A good listener is a silent flatterer

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Silence is also speech.

A bad wife takes advice from everyone but her husband.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in Airing his own opinions.

He who listens to the advice of a woman is a fool.

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.

Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.