Quotes About Listening

I'd given up trying to explain Hobie to Boris: the house, the workshop, his thoughtful way of listening (...) but more than anything a sort of pleasing atmosphere of mind: foggy, autumnal, a mild and welcoming micro-climate that made me feel safe and comfortable in his company.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words." — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

talk about their work, their families, their lives. He had always loved to talk, but now he learned to listen, and to listen intently, his head nodding in a welcoming way, with an air of sympathetic identification, an attentive posture and manner that would become a lifelong characteristic.

Ci siamo mai chiesti quali cambiamenti si determinarono nel nostro cervello quando la gente cominciò a leggere invece di ascoltare?

Mariotta listened to it all, sitting judicially in a whirl of velvet with all the Culter jewels and the emerald necklace for moral support.

Open the casement and lean out, glowing. All they want to do is report to Austin that you listened to them without apparently having a seizure.

Piero Strozzi and Francis Crawford looked at one another. 'A hint,' said Lymond, 'sufficeth for the wise, but a thousand speeches profit not the heedless. Did you hear what she said?' 'Unfortunately,' said Piero Strozzi, 'I heard what she said.

Mummy, I think I might understand if only you wouldn't explain.

Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. - Rimmer

Richard reflected that Dirk's was a face into which too much had already been put. What with that and the amount he talked, the traffic through his mouth was almost incessant. His ears, on the other hand, remained almost totally unused in normal conversation.

You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

All day he had gone up to people, fallen into conversation with them, listened to their troubles, and then quietly uttered those three magic words, "I believe you." The effect had invariably been electrifying.

I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped.

And when I hear their questions, do you hear questions? What do their voices mean to you? Perhaps you just think they're singing songs to you. He reflected on this, and saw the flaw in the supposition. Perhaps they are singing songs to you, he said, and I just think they're asking me questions. He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.

I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen.

that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.

You know,' said Arthur, 'it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.' 'Oh.' Ford carried on humming.

KeÅŸke gençken annemi dinleseydim diyorum.' 'Neden, ne derdi sana?' 'Bilmem, hiç dinlemedim ki.

Beware the dog that does not bark, and the man who does not talk.

To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.

I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn                           between bitterness and hope

As I listened to this priest, all the presence and mystery disappeared from the room and everything returned to the relative world.

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.