Quotes About Listening

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Speak, Lord"; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord."

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Things worth telling - take time

Sometimes, all you need is someone who will listen. It is fortune enough to have people around who hear you & not judge you.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.