Quotes About Listening

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

The final score was 6–4, 6–2, 6–3. I gave young Andre a hug at the net, and said, "Why did you listen so well?

I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

Sometimes I fantasize about being an analyst," Svetlana said, "but when I brought it up to my shrink, he said I'd be terrible. He said I'd never let the patient get a word in edgewise.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

Today, in our "shut up, get over it, and move on" mentality, our society misses so much, it's no wonder we are a generation that longs to tell our stories.

I listened to her with my head in my arms and looked out the window at the whirling starry sky. The Greeks had used those same stars to conquer the world. We were like them - gods and heroes.

Everyone is silent.

Open-minded people will not necessarily agree with me, not when my arguments don't make sense to them. But open-minded people do listen, and if I explain (and when it is important), they are willing to invest in reevaluating their cause-and-effect connections.

Communication is a combination of right words and sensitive acts.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

much as Flush tries to understand me when I tell him that barking and jumping may be unseasonable things.

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

But wasn't that part of a whore's job? Being the sort of ear that lonely men could turn to? I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

Silence is as good as an answer, angel.

He let her have the silence while she selected her words.

Matthew the Magician leaned against a wrought iron lampost on Forty-second Street, richly picking at the edges of his ten rings and listening to his city breathing into the warm September night.

In the few days Seeker had been away, Hope had grown from abused girl to aristocratic young woman. It was in every line as she tilted her head to the side, listening to laughter floating down the sweeping stairwell-in the calluses on her fingertips and the smile at the edge of her eyes.

I let her have the last word. I didn't really need to answer.

No one spoke, and Kit realized they were all listening as intently to his quiet conversation with Murchaud as if they leaned close over a candle-lit table in some table, whispering conspiracies.