Quotes About Listening

Wisdom is made up of ten parts—nine of which are silence, and the tenth is brevity of language. A

Half the political intelligentsia who talk to a working audience don't get the value of their stuff across—not so much because they're over their audience's heads, as because half the chaps are listening to the voice and not to the words, so they knock a big discount off what they do hear because it's all a bit fancy, and not like ordinary, normal talk.

You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.

When we fear what other people think about us, we are frequently more focused on 'being interesting' and less focused on 'taking an interest.' That's why many people talk a great deal when they are anxious and why many people never feel heard. If both people and conversation are trying to be interesting, there is no one left to genuinely listen.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

And as for me—feel no sorrow. When you see the wind stir the greenwood, or when you turn the pages of a book made from a tree's still-blameless flesh, lean close and listen. You hear my voice.

Maybe he was annoyed by the criticism he got for the scene in Grizzly Man during which he listens to Timothy Treadwell's death over headphones: Why should he get to hear it and we don't? There was no need—the coroner had already given a play-by-play account. The voyeurs still wanted more. They wanted to hear raw mortality.

I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it's dark and you can't see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?

Though the people of Gergesa had not received Jesus, He did not leave them to the darkness they had chosen. When they bade Him depart from them, they had not heard His words. They were ignorant of that which they were rejecting. Therefore He again sent the light to them, and by those to whom they would not refuse to listen. In

Not without a struggle could Jesus listen in silence to the arch-deceiver.

This is why I don't like to argue with people. You say things you don't mean. Or, you kind of mean them, but the way you say it sounds arrogant and hurtful" -Uncle Walt

The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.

mad, that's what's the matter with him," Curtis added in disgust. "Let's get out." He turned to go—then, halted—and stood still. He appeared to be listening. "What's up with you?" Hamar asked. "Both you

El alcohol no es mal consejero, lo que pasa es que no siempre uno lo escucha correctamente.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.

En vez de apartarse de nosotros o rehusarse a escuchar nuestros débiles sollozos, Dios envía Su Espíritu para ayudarnos.

The willingness to give others a listening ear will automatically make you teacheable and make them your teachers. Listen up, you ought to be teacheable if you've been unteacheable all these while. Because, the more you think you know, the more you will realize that you know less than you even thought that you knew. Besides, no human is an island of itself. So, you are expected to be punctual and humble in order to learn something new from someone else or others.

The willingness to give others a listening ear will automatically make you teacheable and make them your teachers. Listen up, you ought to be teacheable if you've been unteacheable all these while. Because, the more you think you know, the more you will realize that you know less than you even thought that you knew. Besides, no human is an island of his/her own. So, you are expected to be punctual/humble in order to learn from others.

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Chatter: any conversation with someone who has not suffered.

Geschwätz ist jede Konversation mit einem, der nicht gelitten hat.

In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.

In their desire to make their point, presenters miss the point.