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Quotes About Listening

Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Niekada nepulk taip žemai, kad imtum skaityti paskaitas, - kad niekas nepamanyt?, jog peršame nuomon? arba nusileidžiame iki publikos lygio trokšdami su ja kalb?tis. Jeigu ji nori, tegu mus skaito.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Cuando discutimos de algún asunto la razón no la tiene quien más grita sino el que es capaz de enlazar sus argumentos de modo adecuado.
~ Fernando Savater
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
~ Flann O'Brien
I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.
~ Poppy
My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
~ Patricia Cornwell
We have our ears to the ground and have been listening to the farmers.
~ Anurag Thakur
People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.
~ Alex Lifeson
I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
~ Sloane Stephens
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
~ Ma Jian
I met Draymond when he was about nine years old. We talked about basketball. It just making me feel good just knowing that he actually listened and he applied everything I talked about to basketball.
~ Ben Wallace
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
~ Stephen Covey
Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.
~ Joel Grey
Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
~ Liz Phair
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever work I do, I tend to do it fast and accurately, but when it comes to fields that I don't know about well, I prefer to just listen.
~ Park Shin-hye
Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.
~ Dominic Cummings
I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the fifth song, and then I don't get to really hear the rest of the record.
~ Colbie Caillat
I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
~ William Moseley
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
~ K'naan
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
~ Roger Babson
It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.
~ Julian Treasure
A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
~ K. Flay
I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
~ Bill Bruford