Quotes About Listening

I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

One of the classic mistakes is we think if we get closer to someone by just listening to all of their relationship woes, we're going to suddenly end up romantically involved.

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

I used to wonder, when my grandmother would tell me what the wolf said to the jackal, how these animals can talk. And, she would say, 'in my stories, animals talk. Shut up and listen.'

Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

I think talking things out is therapeutic.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

I have respect for therapists in general, because they hear so many stories. It's a lot to hold and take in.

I would have loved to have been a psychiatrist or therapist.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.