Quotes About Listening

Don't keep parroting at me!' Halt fumed. 'Stop repeating what I say! I asked you "what", so don't ask

some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...

my thoughts reach out like prayers to you - and if you are quiet, you can hear...

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.

Men need to remember that women talk about problems to get close and not necessarily to get solutions.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

Es más fácil escuchar a alguien un rato e improvisar que sentarse día tras día y penetrar las capas de lo mundano y trivial en búsqueda de lo profundo.

They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

I remember Robyn saying once 'Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous'. When I asked what she meant, she said: 'If you never talk about yourself, about your problems and stuff, that's selfish, because you're not giving your friends a chance to help you. And if you talk about yourself all the time, you're selfish and boring.

Mr. Lindell's English classes are meant to make you think I guess about yourself and people and everything. Some of the kids say it's pretty weird but they're more honest in English than they are anywhere else and they say more about what they feel...Everything that's said in English etches itself clearly and sharply in my mind like letters carved neatly into deep frost. But I never let them see how eagerly I listen.

I wondered how long an adult could talk to a kid without using the word "but." About forty seconds'd be the record for most of them and that's on a good day.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.