Quotes About Listening

Boy with the name and face I don't remember, you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

If you are caring for a young me, just listening is a huge support, but perhaps also remember the human mind is a powerful machine. Many years later I was with a young French special forces captain, in the most dangerous place in the world, on a base under attack from suicide bombers: 'People don't change when others tell them they should. People change when they tell themselves they must.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. "Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. " Can we help you, Alex? " a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured." " I beg your pardon?

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through

What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day's stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once. (Cornet at Night)

Through good listening skills, comes success.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

My lifetime listens to yours.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!