Quotes About Listening

I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.

I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.

Sometimes people just need to be heard. They find happiness in sharing their thoughts.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say.

Tarot is a way of sorting out what's bothering you and getting advice from the best-informed source - you - in a way that you're likely to listen to.

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.

Lockington said, "'Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.'" She clapped her hands. "Oh, that's excellent! Who said it?" "My father—he used it twenty times a day." "It sounds almost biblical." "It is biblical—it's the only verse my old man ever memorized.

I took the conch shell and set it to my ear. Its susurrus sounded less like the sea than the labored breathing of a tiring runner. No doubt I heard what I was listening for.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

In the Empathy step, kids practice reflecting on their concerns and expressing those concerns in ways that other people can hear and understand.

In the Define Adult Concerns step, kids practice listening to another person's concerns (what many of us refer to as empathy), taking another person's perspective, and appreciating how their behavior is affecting others.

Kids who are accustomed to having their concerns dismissed tend to be far less receptive to hearing the concerns of their caregivers. Over time, such kids also become far less receptive to talking to their parents.

Strategy #1: Reflective listening—simply saying back to the child whatever they just said to you—often followed by clarifying statements, like "How so?" or "I don't quite understand" or "I'm confused" or "Can you say more about that?" or "What do you mean?" This is your default drilling strategy, and the one you'll be using most often.

Some adults, having now made some headway toward understanding their kids' concerns, have difficulty resisting the temptation to revert to form by being dismissive or offering solutions, thereby ending the problem-solving process.

I wonder if there's a way for us to help you find the words to start each section . . ." (that was the kid's concern) ". . . and still make sure you get some practice at doing that so it won't always be so hard for you and so that you can express your really good ideas" (that was the adult's concern).

Many parents, in their eagerness to solve the problem, forget the Invitation step. This means that just as they are at the precipice of actually collaborating on a solution, they impose a solution. Too often we assume that the only person capable of coming up with a good solution to a problem is the adult.

it's common for adults to be incorrect in their assumptions about what's making it hard for a child to meet an expectation. If you enter the Empathy step quite certain that you already know his concern, you're at risk for perfunctory drilling and/or for steering the ship toward a predetermined destination. But

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

It is, as some modern Christian thinkers have said, what makes the Church what it really is. For that short time, when we gather as God's guests at God's table, the Church becomes what it is meant to be – a community of strangers who have become guests together and are listening together to the invitation of God.