Quotes About Listening

To listen to a person is not passive.

What frightened her the most was the moment of those first notes, because that was when people really listened: She was changing the atmosphere in the room.

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active, and Dottie had really listened.

It was Henry's nature to listen, and many times during the week he would say, 'Gosh, I'm awful sorry to hear that, ' or 'Say, isn't that something?

To listen to a person is not passive. To really listen is active

and she seemed to really listen, I could see her listening, and she responded exactly right somehow. I cannot remember what she said, but I remember thinking, Oh, she is right here with me.

She'd filled the house with plants and flowers, been good to Ana, she'd packed suitcases for their expensive vacations, waited while he played golf, and mostly (Pam was right about this) listened while Jim talked about himself endlessly, how smart he'd been in court that day, how he was the best in the business and everyone knew it.… She had bought him a drawer full of cuff links, a ludicrously expensive watch, because, he said, he'd always wanted one. But

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

wall. But one day Rusty Wren told him that his cousin, Long Bill Wren,

We poor mortals may speak often and yet fail to be heard. He speaks but once and the thunder of His power is heard on a thousand hills.

The hare was following the interchange; it appeared to nod during Vatanen's words.

despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger lies not in not knowing, but in revealing that you do: It is always good to have a sense of the music before the dance begins.

In affairs of the heart, Princess," César used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate.

At some point in his life, César had realised that no one ever learns from anyone else's mistakes and, consequently, there was only one dignified and proper attitude to be taken by a guardian - which, after all, was what he was - and that consisted in sitting down next to his young ward, taking her by the hand and listening, with infinite kindness, to the evolving story of her loves and griefs, whilst nature took its own wise and inevitable course.

Es su manera de hablar. Callándose.

I could hear him breathing on the other end of the line, the air moving through his lips, across his tongue, into his throat and lungs, then turning to silence as he held it there, thinking.

Always thank a good listener. You never know when you might need them again!

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

I try never to speak until people have finished with the weather reports.

Il faut écouter les autres dans leurs langues et dans la forme spontanée de leur fureur.

You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.