Quotes About Listening

Communication goes two ways. Somebody has to talk. And somebody has to listen.

John lowered the book he'd been reading. Im sorry. Were you speaking to me? I know you were listening, I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.

Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves. Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist.

You can learn a lot from letting other people talk, and just listening to what they have to say.

You don't have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters.

Transatlantic phone calls suck because I can hear the ocean swishing in the background and it makes me all nervous, like the fish are listening, or something.

But it's pretty clear to me by now that Sarah just likes to talk to hear the sound of her own voice, so I let her go on, since she has no one else to talk to

Even I didn't think she sounded very convincing, and I am very easily convinced by almost anything. For instance, in convocations where we are forced to listen to the debate team, I almost always agree with whichever team is talking at the moment, no matter what they're saying.

I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we've made along the way, which is why it's imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don't let anyone else's noise drown it out.

I was listening, the king said, aggrieved. I closed my eyes to listen better. What did you hear? I'm not sure, he said. That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax. I am sure you can arrange an appointment. I am sure I can too.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.

What's more, a lot of people who harbor an intolerance for complexity see it not as a character flaw but a cognitive virtue. That's because they've fallen into the trap of believing that complicated ideas (complicated now constituting anything that requires reading, watching or listening to in its entirety) are the purview of the elite.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better?' Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

You're correcting my grammar now? Yes, I'm helping you to be better. And I expect the same from you. What if I don't want to be better? Then you'll be just a petulant, infinitive-splitting eavesdropper.

My aunts taught me that sometimes when the world is too much, when life starts to feel overwhelming, we must strip away what's unnecessary, seek out the quiet, and listen to the dirt and trees. "All the answers you seek are there, but only if you are willing to hear them.

My aunts taught me that sometimes when that world is too much, when life starts to feel overwhelming, we must strip away what's unnecessary, seek out the quite, and listen to the dirt and trees. All the answers you seek are there, but only if you are willing to hear them.

It's vital that we work together," he says. "Arguments will only slow us down." "We wouldn't argue if you didn't contradict everything I say. Hold on, I mean you if you don't want to hear anything I have to say. You think you have all the answers already.

This night would have been so much more pleasant if all the men had stopped talking.

We can ask for information and use words to forge a closer connection, but we don't have to take people around the block with our conversations. We don't have to listen to, or participate in, nonsense. We can say what we want and stop when we're done.

Learn the words: I feel. Let others say those words and learn to listen—not fix—when they do. We

We can discuss our feelings and problems without expecting people to rescue us too. We can settle for being listened to. That's probably all we ever wanted anyway.

Learn the words: I feel. Let others say those words and learn to listen—not fix—when they do.

Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?