Quotes About Listening

Maybe someone should start an Opaque Church, where we could learn to give up one kind of vision in hope of another. Instead of wearing name tags, we would touch each other's faces. Instead of looking around to see who's there, we could learn to listen for each other's voices.

Week after week, I was permitted to stand up in special clothes and talk while everyone else sat quietly and listened. Week after week, they heard the gospel filtered through my sensibilities. On Sunday mornings they sang the hymns I had chosen, and on Wednesday evenings they engaged the topics I had picked.

But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years.

What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your life outlook or your views on religion or politics? Could it just be someone who could talk and listen and commiserate?

She turned the water on again, rinsed a dish, put it in the dishwasher. "I know you didn't have jewelry." She listened. "Yes, Mother, other women would love what I have, but that's not the point. The point is that a gift lacks something if I have to dictate exactly

You've got to stop listening to that tiny hysterical voice inside and start listening to the messages your body's been sending for weeks now. The hysterical voice is exactly that. Hysterical. It's highly emotional. It doesn't know the facts, and it's preventing you from seeing and believing them.

Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.

He really should have listened to his grandfather, because three weeks after he'd arrived, all hell had broken loose. Not with the project. The construction of phase one was on budget and on time. His professional life was in sync, but his personal life was a mess. All

I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Your comfort is my silence.

My mama says you should never keep your troubles to yourself. She says if you share 'em with somebody, they get smaller.

The country listened to thousands of speeches and read thousands of newspaper columns raking over every argument for and against imperialism and every aspect of the war in the Philippines.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se queda. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Habla, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

Sólo los hombres se marchan. Las mujeres se quedan. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque las mujeres aprenden. ¿Y sabes por qué aprenden? Porque escuchan. Los hombres no escuchan. Hablan, hablan, hablan durante cincuenta años, y de pronto un día piensan que se están haciendo viejos y se marchan a buscar una más joven. Grandísimos cretinos.

To a talkative woman Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts

Temple of Suma— hearing the unblown flute in the deep shade of trees sumadera ya / fukanu fue kiku / koshitayami

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

I realized I wasn't a good employee because I was too busy listening to people's personal problems to do work.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.