Quotes About Listening

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

If only I could talk Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Doctor Ellington, the cat

Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.

Talking is no effort, and silence no embarrassment.

Verstandig en stil? Is dit soos wat ander mense haar beskou? Iemand wat luister, sonder 'n eie verhaal?

La parola scritta m'ha insegnato ad ascoltare la voce umana, press'a poco come gli atteggiamenti maestosi e immoti delle statue m'hanno insegnato ad apprezzare i gesti degli uomini. Viceversa, con l'andar del tempo, la vita m'ha chiarito i libri.

I will not fall. I have reached the center. I listen to the striking of who knows what divine clock through the thin carnal wall of a life full of blood, of shudderings, and of breathings. I am near the mysterious kernel of things as one is sometimes near a heart at night.

La palabra escrita me enseñó a escuchar la voz humana, un poco como las grandes actitudes inmóviles de las estatuas me enseñaron a apreciar los gestos. En cambio, y posteriormente, la vida me aclaró los libros.

I push throughthe wind to the north-facing window and stand before it. 'I will bring her back!' I shout into the darkness. I do this because I know Rhauk will be listening.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Bienaventurados los que no hablan; porque ellos se entienden!