Quotes About Listening

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

I lay in bed that March morning, listening to noises from below stairs and priding myself on the fact that I had kept peace in the house since January. If I didn't, we might all kill each other. Not with guns, no. We'd had our fill of guns with the war. But with words, the way civilized people kill each other every day.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

My mother spoke, alive again inside my brain...She spoke and I listened to her, because I was afraid if I didn't her voice would gradually fade away, an evanescent wraith of a thing that would narrow to a pinpoint of light and then go out, lost forever, like the Tinker Bell if no one clapped for her.

Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the next round of pontificating and so saved their strength by staying silent.

This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.

He was quiet and thoughtful, letting her do all the talking until she would reach one of her acerbic pitches and he would murmur, You don't really mean that. But he had never seemed put off.

I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.

I am interested in silences

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.

Paper is more patient than man.

There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.

Paper is more patient than people.

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

Ordinarily people don't know how much books can mean to someone whose cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wirelessly.

Ordinarily people don't know how much books can mean to someone whose cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

Paper has more patience than people.

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)

Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.