Quotes About Listening

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone else do the talking. Where we absorb rather than emit. By occasionally isolating ourselves, we can more successfully, more generously, socialise.

We started off in improv and sketch comedy, and with improv the most important thing is to listen and make sure you're not stepping over someone, so we've been trained for such a long time doing that.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Every opinion must be suffered. One must listen to what may be rousing, annoying, even shocking, but it must be done honestly, fairly and with equanimity, respecting the rights of every Member of the Knesset and each faction, guarding the minority in the face of the predatory majority.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.

Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music.

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

I rouse you with loud knocking, I do so only because I seldom hear you breathe

And where a great and unique person speaks, the rest of us should be silent

Aber das Wehende höre, die ununterbrochene Nachricht, die aus Stille sich bildet.

Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.

The unheard sounds came through, and each melodic line existed of itself, stood out clearly from all the rest, said its piece, and waited patiently for the other voices to speak.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

It is better to hear than to speak.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone