Quotes About Listening

We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound. 'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.' 'Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar.

I hate it when people listen to what I say in an inappropriate fashion.

But don't take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: "There's a lot to learn for wasting time.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

When Mrs. Sardotopolis got home there would be eight other children to take care of. But that was a simple matter. None of them was sick. When the eight children weren't sick they tumbled, shrieked and squealed in the dark hallway or in the street. Anywhere. Mrs. Sardotopolis only listened with half an ear. As long as they made noise they were healthy. So from day to day she listened not for their noise but to hear if any of them grew quiet.

Sima made a space for me to hear that there were depths beneath what I was saying that I hadn't sounded yet.

It is perfectly possible for two people to listen to the same words and hear entirely different things.

Algorithms are listening to us. At the very least we should try to listen better than we are being listened to.

because genre is a construct for the purpose of commerce, not pleasure, and ultimately for the purpose of listening to less

Por qué seré tan callado? Cuanto más hablan los que me rodean, menos ganas tengo de decir algo.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

If you wish to win a man"s heart, allow him to confute you.

Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.

my desire being to gain knowledge at the same time that I improv'd in virtue, and considering that in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, and therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

130. Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly.

However, remember this: They that will not be counseled cannot be helped; and further that, If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles,

Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Regardless of your exact posture, the goal is to be focused on the meditation itself, not allowing any discomfort or distractions to pull your mental attention away from your focus on listening to the Holy Spirit's voice.

As Marguerite Derrida puts it: 'I've always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.