Quotes About Listening

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

I do like classical music, and soft rock, and jazz, which I never listened to when I was 15. Now I like it. The older you get, the more tolerant you get, right?

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

Like voices humming along a telegraph wire, Evie thought. That was how to teach it. One could rest one's hand upon the past, feel the vibrato, one could close one's eyes, lean low and listen hard. If you were paying attention, one could hear the voices underneath the past. And that was time.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

My considerate friend insists on hearing about my troubles first, and after several minutes of excavation, I'm drowning in them and can't sufficiently attend to hers. But I'm doing her a favor, letting her escape her suffering into mine.

If you want to know someone's secret, don't ask a thing. Just listen.

Talking with someone who reveals nothing, I hear myself madly filling the emptiness with information about myself.

It's interesting to watch my friend speak carefully about what he thinks I'll find interesting.

Oh God." I told you not to look." No, you didn't. You said 'in a minute.' That's not the same thing at all." It is to me." She swallowed back her gorge. Her throat was tight in the aftermath. "I'm adding communication issues to the stuff we need to work on." I communicate just fine. The way I see it, your listening is off.

Ivo sat and listened, the look in his blue eyes enrapt and I knew, though I could hardly believe it, that he was not bored or uninterested, that to him I mattered as I had never mattered to anyone in my life.

He'd learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn't let him distract you.

It was that or cancel it. And I can't believe I just told you that." Audrey shrugged. "Friends and family all have opinions and feel they have to fix things, and sometimes all you want is someone to listen.

Quiet doesn't mean you don't have important things to say. Just that you might take your time saying them.

Good night. 'A thousand times good night.' That's Shakespeare, although why Juliet says it a thousand times, I don't know. Probably because Romeo wasn't listening the first time. Men should wake up and pay attention.

Listen to her the way you would listen to your own daughter if she died too young and tried to speak to you across long distances.

cross-talk, no countering, and no criticism.

Funny how hard it is to keep talking, when someone asks you to start and not stop.

I also speak Peace to you, for I know your anxious thoughts. Listen to Me! Tune out other voices, so that you can hear Me more clearly. I designed you to dwell in Peace all day, every day.

DO NOT USURP MY ROLE in people's lives, no matter how much you long to help them. Learn from Me: Because I have all authority in heaven and on earth, I could rescue or control anyone at will, yet I wanted them to be free to love Me—or not. Restrain your urges to solve people's problems; instead, use your time and energy to listen to them and pray for them.

In order to know My will, you must spend time with Me— enjoying My Presence.