Quotes About Listening

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.

I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

In my mind, a good leader would say, 'OK, I need to sit down and talk to the guys who oppose me. Let me let them voice their opinions; let me get their thought process.'

Republicans and Democrats know Xavier Becerra to be a thoughtful leader who is always willing to listen to both sides.