Quotes About Listening

Tal vez el estar muriendo sea un rumor que puede no oírse, pero el morir es un silencio que tiene que ser escuchado.

Paso un rato, pero seguía sintiendo exactamente lo mismo: alguien dentro de mi quería decir algo. Como no podía dejar de oírlo, trate d oírlo. Pero no entendí nada.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,The moon takes up the wondrous tale,And nightly to the listening earthRepeats the story of her birth;While all the stars that round her burn,And all the planets in their turn,Confirm the tidings as they roll,And spread the truth from pole to pole.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I listen as I eat the street for supper, listen to the pain songs of Mexico. Flashes of returning come with the birds.

You are feeling better, no?' he asked. My mouth dropped open. 'I thought you didn't speak our language...' I said. He shrugged. 'I do not speak well, but I can say enough. I understand more what I hear than I am able to reply. To rule, you must learn. I study many languages. You learn more by listening than speaking, no? So that is what I do. I have learned much already by listening to your conversation with the sorceress. I know you false. I know you to be farmer boy, not prince.

Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

And as the old men warned, power does not listen with honest ears to the whispers of the powerless.

A man always hears the first time," Julie said, smiling at us, "but he makes you tell him twice. Especially if he's your husband. Men have their tricks. Don't ever think they don't.

Squirrelpaw, sooner or later you must learn there are times to speak, and times to be silent." Squirrelpaw heaved a noisy sigh. "But it seems like it's always time to be silent." "There, you've got the idea.

Of course I mean it," Cinderpelt mewed dryly. "I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.

Yes," Jaypaw agreed. "But since you never shut up I can always hear exactly where you are.

Much is to be read everywhere," the badger replied. "In stars, in running water, in flash of light on waves. Whole world speaks, if ears are open to listen.

I need to talk

He couldn't hear the hawk, and he couldn't hear us when we tried to warn him." "It's my fault!" Speckletail wailed.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Listening to stories and telling them helped our ancestors to live humanly—to be human. But somewhere along the way our ability to tell (and to listen to) stories was lost. As life speeded up, as the possibility of both communication and annihilation became ever more instantaneous, people came to have less tolerance for that which comes only over time.

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

They are interested not in our solutions but in our answers.