Quotes About Listening

there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: Who dah? He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. It was dangerous recreation, but it was pleasanter than traveling in Syria.

Though if he did say it no one there ever heard him.

She was just looking straight at me, and without any malice either. She was wide open, taking in everything I told her without judgement, just listening, listening to the way I phrased it all, listening to how I felt.

God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? Your job is to... And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

For a few moments, Liesel said nothing. It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges.

I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing words. I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear. I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it.

But as they walked on, they stopped several times, to listen. They thought they could hear voices and words behind them, on the word shaker's tree.

Why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I've been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask. The answer's quite simple: To care.

From Liesel's position, their voices were only sounds. Not words at all.

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

Just hold me, sit with me, put your arm around me. Listen as I struggle to tell you what it feels like, without thinking you have to tie it all up in some cohesive clinical bundle. I don't expect you to make this better. I know you can't.

He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.

Understanding the call, Dasein listens to its ownmost possibility of existence. It has chosen itself.

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy? he said softly. Assuredly, she said, provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound.

nunca as deixar pensar que suas informações podem ter a menor importância para você. Se você fizer isso, eles vão se calar instantaneamente como uma ostra. Se você os ouvir sob protesto, por assim dizer, é muito provável que você consiga o que deseja .

eavesdropping

Of course I was happy to sit and listen, but I understood perfectly well that the Chairman wasn't telling these things to me because he wanted me to know them. He was clearing them from his mind, just like draining water from a bucket. So I listened closely not to his words, but to the tone of his voice; because in the same way that sound rises as a bucket is emptied, I could hear the Chairman's voice softening as he spoke.

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

Wer klug ist, wird im Gespräch weniger an das denken, worüber er spricht, als an den, mit dem er spricht.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people.