Quotes About Listening

Our bodies are constantly giving us signals about what we can and cannot handle. It's when we choose to ignore them that we can get overworked and be forced to sit out for a while.

For me, the most fun times in this office are when we're listening to music. That's what you signed up for, not to just make deals.

Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'

A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Listen to the sound of silence.

People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

I was always very quiet, and I think everyone thought that was because I was a good child. I'd sit there in silence, but it wasn't until my mother was calling me one day when I was very young that she realised something was wrong because I wasn't responding.

Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying part lies the beautiful silence.

When you've got an audience, there's a silence in there that you don't find anywhere else. And it's really powerful. People are there listening with you and you're affecting them in some way.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

That's one of things I think I need to improve upon, communicating really well with my wife. My dad was kind of a strong silent type, and I have some of that in me, If you get me talking about hunting, fishing or faith, I can talk a while.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

When asking God for direction, ask Him to give you ears to hear it and the will and strength to follow it. Say, "God show me what to do and enable me to do it.