Quotes About Listening

For me, Mother's Day means giving undivided attention to my mother. It's not about buying her luxurious stuff, it's about giving her my complete attention when she is talking, discussing something, and I think it's the best gift for her.

If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.

I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'

I can learn a lot from reading briefing books and talking to experts, but that pales in comparison to what I can learn from going out and talking to people about what they're actually experiencing and hearing about their ideas.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

I like to listen to the crowd, I really do. The crowd helps give me that extra boost of adrenaline.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.