Quotes About Listening

Talking among children is an overrated concept.

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

As Samuel Johnson said, To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

For instance, studies show that when mothers listen without offering advice or criticism while their children explain solutions to problems, the children markedly improve their problem-solving ability.

Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.

These couples ease into arguments instead of blowing up immediately—and avoid bombs such as "You never . . ." and "You always . . .

Our hearing anchors us in the world; it tells us what's happening behind us, above us, in the dark, and before we're born. Sound pumps me up, calms me down, and transforms my moods in just a few seconds.

But if someone really cared, well they'd take the time to spare, a moment to try and understand, another one's despair

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been spent in the dark back-room of a shop in some town, she would now perhaps have been kindled by the lyric surgings of nature which only normally reach us as through the interpretation of a writer.

No hables al menos que puedas mejorar el silencio. (Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.) —Jorge Luis Borges

Geras pašnekovas pats daug nekalba, bet sugeba prakalbinti kitus. Taigi, pokalbio meistrai yra ne tie, kurie moka kalb?ti, o tie, kurie moka klausyti.

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by arguments. But humour he always listens to, even though it be ill humour.

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.

Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

I want to say something comforting, but I know that this is one of the moments when words would be like an appendix—superfluous or harmful.

The secret in any interview was the ability to not fill the silence. A few seconds passed.

Wait." Vic put a hand to his ear, as though straining to hear. He was a small man except for the enormous bowling-ball gut. His face might be called "ferretlike," if the ferret was really ugly. "What?

Wendy wondered what to say here, what wouldn't sound patronizing, but "I'm sure that's not true" or "I'm sorry" didn't make the cut. She again opted for silence. "Do

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.