Quotes About Listening

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.

When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. ... And always think of other people.

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.

how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious event called contact

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

I spoke to the Old Man a couple of times, but I'm sure He didn't hear a word I said. He had quit listening to man a million years ago. Now all He does is play chess by Himself or sit around playing solitary with old cards.

Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.

Spirituality is experienced in our Listening, in our Forgiveness, in our Dark places, in our Confusions, in our stories—not so much in what we "do," but in what and how we be . . . by how we experience the realities that we meet. Spirituality is, in briefest description, a way of life—a way of being.

As we listen, truly hearing, our understanding of the world changes from a self-centered focus to an other-oriented openness—we come to understand how we are connected

But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all.

In singing our song, in telling our story, in inviting you to say 'Hey, listen to me, and i'll listen to you', we're starting a dialogue. And when you do that, this healing happens, and we come out of our corners, and we start to witness each other's common humanity. We start to assert it. And when we do that, really good things happen

It's funny—but there will be no need for insurance in heaven. None at all. And there will be so much need for poetry and songs and jokes. People will value what you've learned. It doesn't matter if you can make a living. Shakespeare will be important. You will be so valuable, William. And I will just sit there listening, realizing how I've misspent my life.

For all of them told happenings like narrations, chronological and careful, as if the ear of the world listened and wished to know surely.

If God listened to mothers," the rabbi responds severely, "we would all rot away in a bog of security and easy living.

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

Should you want to listen to Variations, try hearing it from a good-condition original 1978 vinyl pressing. Because the sides are relatively short, the sound quality is amazing.

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

Andrew Mayne

What have you learned?" She wanted to tell him that he was a peculiar and infuriating young man. "That people don't listen." "Precisely. Just because you can see the problems of an elliptical problem doesn't mean that others will listen. And that's what we do.