Quotes About Listening

Ey da?lar?n dertlerini dinleyen rüzgar! Benim art?k yaln?z sana itimad?m var.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things that he had determined after due deliberation; and no vainglory in those things that men call honors; and a love of labor and perseverance; and a readiness to listen to those who had anything to propose for the common weal; and undeviating firmness in giving to every man according to his deserts; and a knowledge derived from experience of the occasions for vigorous action and for remission.

To read attentively—not to be satisfied with "just getting the gist of it." And not to fall for every smooth talker.

De mi padre[144] la gentileza, la firmeza sin oscilación en decisiones previamente analizadas; no vanagloriarse en lo que se considera motivo de honras; ser amigo del esfuerzo y perseverar; prestar oídos a quien tiene algo en bien del común que proponer; no dejarse pervertir al distribuir a cada

Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech.

53. Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.

In conversation keep abreast of what is being said, and, in every effort, of what is being done. In the latter see from the first to what end it has reference, and in the former be careful to catch the meaning.

Train thyself to pay careful attention to what is being said by another and as far as possible enter into his soul.

From Alexander the grammarian, not to be captious; nor in a carping spirit find fault with those who import into their conversation any expression which is barbarous or ungrammatical or mispronounced, but tactfully to bring in the very expression, that ought to have been used, by way of answer, or as it were in joint support of the assertion, or as a joint consideration of the thing itself and not of the language, or by some such graceful reminder.

Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.

Your childish clarity faded, and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. The world was persuasive and loud, and so you resigned yourself to conforming to its demands.

As we read the Bible, we are not only to bring our critical intelligence with us, but also to listen.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Listening . . . means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where. But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.

She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his chest. She likes to hear his voice this way, as if it begins not in his throat but in his body, like a hum or a growl, or like a voice speaking from deep underground. Like the blood moving through her own heart: a word, a word, a word.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.

He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.