Quotes About Listening

The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

If people want my advice, I will gladly give it to them. If they don't ask, I won't feel inclined to because maybe they didn't want to know.

It's important for people to, instead of automatically assuming everything the opposite side says is incorrect, you have to at least listen and see why someone might feel a certain way.

Our message of opportunity and inclusion is, I think, a very powerful message that does indeed speak to Americans, but we've got to do a better job of listening.

Les phrases amoureuses que j'aurais voulu entendre depuis quatre ans, voilà qu'il me les disait alors que je n'écoutais plus. Et voilà qu'il m'écrivait quand il partait en reportage des lettres qu'il croyait d'amour. [...]« Je t'embrasse comme je t'aime», ne valaient pas à mes yeux le petit « je t'I » de Pierre. Il me semblait à moi qu'on aime plus quand on le dit mieux.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

E' notte, una notte piena di stelle. Il mio corpo sfinito riposa… ma io sono con tutto me stesso nell'attrezzatura e nelle vele per ascoltare il mare… palpare il vento che abbonaccia e mi dice che la notte sarà veramente bella.

You know people. Most of them don't hear anything. Those who hear - don't listen. A few who listen - don't understand. And those who could understand... they don't care.

Winsome has listened to her grandchildren's lives since they could speak, and they've never asked about her she understands that young people are consumed by themselves, and her role is to comfort and reassure and be caring towards them when their parents are cross with them

Tenho cá para mim que no fundo nada pode surpreender quem se permite ouvir nos outros a própria voz.

It was impossible to get a conversation going. Everyone was talking too much.

God will speak to you— not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart.

The country [Canada] is not entitled to nine [Supreme Court] judges giving their own views; the country is entitled to nine judges giving their views after listening to the views of their eight other colleagues.

Where do the winds go? What does the rain know? Where is the egg when the bird has flown? Where does the moon sleep? What makes the sea deep? Where is the soul when the breast is bone? What makes the mouth sing? What loves listening? Where is the tune when the song is done? Where is our joined heart, when at last our hands part And we have returned to be sea, to be sun?

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are...

It's easy. Treat employees fairly and respectfully. Listen to them. Help them get what they want and need. Thank them. Challenge and develop them. Care about them, and you will engage and retain them.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

If you ask Zen people they will say tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.