Quotes About Listening

I'm all ears," she said. An untruth—her ears were a small part of her—but I let that pass.

In this country you can say what you like because no one will listen to you anyway

Most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though to twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

The months passed; my life of tiptoeing and eavesdropping continued. I worked hard at seeing without being seen and hearing without being heard. I discovered the cracks between door frames and nearly closed doors, the listening posts in hallways and on stairs, the thin places in walls. Most of what I heard came in fragments and even silences, but I was becoming good at fitting these fragments together and filling in the unsaid parts of sentences.

I opened myself to your silences.

When the slugs begin to talk there's no time to lose.

The doctor tapped my ribs and eavesdropped on my heart.

know what you mean, we'd say. Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen.

Hacer caso omiso no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que esforzarse para ello.

The saying It's not over 'til the fat lady sings is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to.

Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.