Quotes About Listening

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud. My mom talked, my sister talked. I'd been raised to listen. So, sitting on the couch by myself, not talking, felt decadent.

I waited her out. Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.

A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente piace parlare, e io non sono mai stato un gran chiacchierone. Porto avanti un monologo interiore, ma spesso le parole non arrivano alle labbra. Com'è carina lei oggi, posso pensare, ma per qualche motivo non lo dico ad alta voce. Mia madre parlava, mia sorella parla. Crescendo, mi sono abituato ad ascoltare. Dunque starmene seduto sul divano da solo, in silenzio, mi pareva un lusso.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it's not going to get you respect.

The Hanged Man stopped gesturing and struck a pose: man listening.

We must learn to soundproof the heart against the intruding noises of the public world in order to hear what God has to say.

We particularly need to listen to older people and children. They all have stories to tell that enrich the mind and the heart. Children simplify things, often with brutal honesty. Older people bring the perspective of their long years on issues. Suffering people also help us understand what are the truly important matters of life. There is something to learn from all people if we are only willing to sit at their feet and humble ourselves enough to ask the right questions.

We grow through listening, aggressive listening: asking questions, watching intently what is happening around us, taking note of the good or ill consequences that befall people as a result of their choice making.

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.

There are tines in the prophetic ministry when words we receive for others must stay in the throne room...they are more powerful when converted into crafted prayer and spoken to the father than when put into prophetic language and ministered to human beings.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap

He listened with the intense interest one feels in a stranger's life, the interest the young mistake for love.

He never listened while his wife talked.

Shutting up and just blinking at them is like giving them an information Heimlich," he'd said. "Be patient, and they'll cough it up all over you." Sure enough, Dina hacked it up.

He was so curious about the boys' Thanksgiving that he couldn't put into practice a skill Griffin-Hall had been trying to teach him: to stop and take a few deep breaths and reconsider what he was about to say.

Our Kingdom call is to revolt against the Powers by dismantling the hierarchy of privilege, rejecting all racial stereotypes and judgments, forging meaningful relationships across ethnic lines, and submitting ourselves to one another as we listen, learn, and follow one another.

Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n kalplerinde bulduÄŸun gerçeÄŸi sev. Ve kendi kalbindeki sevginin sesine daima kulak ver.

You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because its so hard to resist. Being listener to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world. What's the first best thing? Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power. ... And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power. They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

We should've built a life from the stars and the sea and the sand. And I should've listened to her—she told me almost nothing, but she did give me clues, and I know now that she put signs in her words and expressions that were as clear as the constellations over our heads.

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.