Quotes About Listening

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Sometimes I think they're all ridiculous. There I was, a sensible person with thoughts in my head, offering a solution. And they wouldn't listen. What aggravation, to believe I can help and yet not be allowed. -Dashti

Well, I don't want to complain," Apple began. "Oh, go ahead and complain. That's why you have a best friend forever after.

Boys need to talk more. Boys need to say things and not assume things. You and my pa and Steffan and everyone, you're going to make us girls insane!

Qacha just nodded. She's a good one, that Qacha. She seems to know when to keep talking and when to let the words drizzle into silence.

While your husband cannot turn off the world's noise, you can pray he will tune in to what is helpful and tune out what is harmful. You can pray that he will raise his spiritual antennae to detect the frequency of God's voice in his inner man.

Alguien dijo una vez "Un amigo escucha la melodía en mi corazón y me la canta cuando mi memoria falla".

I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.

Never in my life have I had a teacher tell me to be quiet because I was talking to somebody in class! It was the best feeling in the world! I felt like the rest of the kids.

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

She Just Wants You to Listen" = She Wants You to Focus on Her Feelings, Not the Problem

the person who listens well holds enormous power

La meta de la revelación es sencilla: ver lo que Dios ve, escuchar lo que Dios escucha y decir lo que Dios dice para que todos podamos amar de la forma en que Dios ama. La

From now on I want to follow my heart, to do what is right for me. Instead of trusting myself, I trusted the world more. Why did I trust it for so long? All the time I was listening to myself, did I ever make a mistake? I often did. But isn't the freedom to make mistakes bigger and more important than all the advice in this world?

Active listening consists of paraphrasing what the other person said, in your own words, in order to show them what you understood.

You pay attention to how people answer, instead of what they say.

To help you identify when someone is talking about or has switched Contexts, listen for: When? Where? With whom? and a verb. When people use these cues, they are telling you what a Context is for them: "When we are sitting in the living room with the kids, arguing about whether it's bedtime." "In client meetings, doing a needs analysis.

You pay attention to how people talk when they answer, rather than what they talk about. Even when a person does not answer the question directly, they will reveal their pattern by the manner in which they answer (or don't).

If you have the tendency to give too much information, the Two Sentence Principle might be for you. Speak two sentences and then observe or listen to your audience (whether one person or many). Do they want more? Do they look bored or want to leave?

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.