Quotes About Listening

Reverberation makes reception into an intelligible din, and the lover into a monstrous receiver, reduced to an enormous auditive organ--as if listening itself were to become a state of utterance; in me, it is the ear which speaks

because we don't have to talk. Often we sit fifteen minutes in silence before one of us breaks it!

he listened closely to what people said and filed away as much information as he could, repeating valuable information to himself until it was memorized.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.

There's a difference between hearing and listening. And that's our problem. I doubt if Westwood even knows what he's got. He didn't listen, and his notes don't seem to mean much. It's going to be like picking a lock with spaghetti.

he could hear faint sounds from their

If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.

and one of those interpretive historical markers your aunt reads aloud while nobody listens

I'd lived years without a woman to tell me small things. Her work went well and she wanted to say so, and I was the man who was listening. That fact swung open and light came in.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person. Truly confident people often do this. They know they grow more by listening than talking.

Never be left speechless again. Like a parrot, simply repeat the last few words your conversation partner says. That puts the ball right back in his or her court, and then all you need to do is listen.

All folks have a Big Ben in their brain that determines how receptive they are going to be to you and your ideas. When you mess with their internal clock, they won't listen to you. No matter how interesting your information, or how pleasant your call, bad timing means bad results for you.

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

Worship is what you do when you've heard Jesus speak. A worship life is what you live when you walk with Jesus.

The more we are the Presence of Christ for others, the more present we are for Christ to speak to us.

Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Come back! the Caterpillar called after her. I've something important to say. This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

know better'; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, 'Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL soon make

I'll whisper it, said the Messenger, putting his hands to his mouth in the shape of a trumpet and stooping so as to get close to the King's ear. However, instead of whispering, he simply shouted at the top of his voice They're at it again! Do you call THAT a whisper? cried the poor King, jumping up and shaking himself. If you do such a thing again, I'll have you buttered! It went through and through my head like an earthquake!

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

Si solamente hablases cuando alguien te preguntase, y si la otra persona siempre esperase que fueses tú quien iniciases la conversación, nunca nadie diría nada.