Quotes About Listening

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

I mainly listen to the music that's playing during movies. It can be the theme to 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'The Equalizer,' stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It's something that I've wanted to do.

I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

Grant that I may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope.

You know, there's this little rule about opinions. They're only good when someone actually asks you for them.

The dead never listen when you want to tell them anything.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

True humility is not just about admitting you can't solve, resolve, or fix every problem on your own. Rather, humility promotes a very personal and real recognition that the experiences and opinions of others matter, and that they can make a difference in your success. One

Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.

I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.

People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.

The ability to see the situation as the other side sees it, as difficult as it may be, is one of the most important skills a negotiator can possess.

If you want someone to listen and understand your reasoning, give your interests and reasoning first and your conclusions or proposals later.

We have to let everyone hear, the result does not belong to us.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Trzeba umie? milcze? o tym samym, a nie tylko o tym samym mówi?.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

I've since deduced that it's always a trap when you don't get to eat until after you hear the talk.