Quotes About Listening

Humble Inquiry is therefore most relevant when you find yourself in a conversation that is initially just transactional but develops into something more personal because one or both of you want it.

we must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. It

Telling is only an investment if you know for sure that what you are telling is of value to the other person. That is why it is safest to tell only if you have been asked, rather than arrogantly deciding on your own to tell somebody something.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

The mind, at length bereft Of thinking and its pain, Will soon disperse again, And nothing will remain: No, not a thing be left. Only the ardent eye, Only the listening ear Can say, "The thrush was here!" Can say, "His song was clear!" Can live, before it die.

Cuando no se deja espacio a la inteligencia, nomás se escucha el estruendo de los cañones y el crepitar de la fusilería.

Caminó de espaldas hacia la avenida, hacia el lado del río. A los pocos pasos se detuvo, se asustó, y casi se enojó consigo mismo, cuando por encima del rumor de la lluvia y de los autos creyó escuchar un grito que traía su nombre.

They listened for a while to the perfect music of the wind and rain and night. To the fire and the simmering kettle.

Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but you do not listen. For a literary man, Watson - and note that I do not comment on the merit of your latest account of my little problems - for a man with the pretenses of being a writer, you are singularly unobservant. Honestly, sometimes I am close to despair.

Ma come hai fatto capirlo, Clod?» si erano stupiti i miei parenti. «Come hai fatto a capire che la spilla da balia era lì?» «L'ho sentita gridare,» avevo risposto.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Don't write if you can talk, don't talk if you can nod your head, don't nod your head if you don't have to.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

His Master's Voice.

Can you hear me now? Good.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

If only closed minds came with closed mouths.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.