Quotes About Listening

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

Our constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and if anybody has a problem we should listen to him, instead of running after him.

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

You've got to listen to your guests.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don't only listen to the guitar player.

I'm always happy to listen, always happy to consider what the community wants. But there are also times when you make a decision, you stick by your guns because you know it's in the best interests of the community.

I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.

I learned mainly by listening to Andres Segovia and that was a great inspiration. And also the gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

Make time every day to share with each other some of the events of the day. When you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you can end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

Quality conversation is quite different from the love language words of affirmation. Affirming words focus on what we are saying, whereas quality conversation focuses fully as much on what we are hearing. If I am sharing my love for you by means of quality time and we are going to spend that time in conversation, it will be with a genuine desire to understand your thoughts, feelings and desires.

A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.

We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve. A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires.

We must first learn what is important to our spouse.

Now I realize that she didn't want advice when she told me about her struggles at work. She wanted sympathy. She wanted me to listen, to give her attention, to let her know that I could understand the hurt, the stress, the pressure. She wanted to know that I loved her and that I was with her. She didn't want advice; she just wanted to know that I understood.

Learning to listen may be as difficult as learning a foreign language, but learn we must, if we want to communicate love. That

Angry people need someone who cares enough to listen long enough to understand the pain. They need someone who listens carefully enough to identify with the person's anger, wisely enough to express understanding, and courageously enough to respond with a gentle, truthful answer—an answer that seeks resolution of the issue that gave rise to the anger.

They are in the same house at the same time, but they are not together. A wife who is texting while her husband tries to talk to her is not giving him quality time, because he does not have her full attention.

The good news is that Dead Seas can learn to talk and Babbling Brooks can learn to listen. We are influenced by our personality but not controlled by it.