Quotes About Listening

What's it going to take to shut you up? she asked. He spread his arms, palms out, and surrendered. Give me something else to do with my mouth.

Listen, Sarah," he said. "We have to deal with this. Just...take it easy. We'll talk about it some more tonight.

any cat he spoke to would stay quite still with an expression of faint surprise on its face as if it had never heard such good sense in all its life nor ever expected to again.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Strange," said Henry Woodhope, "where did you get this nonsense?" "From the man under the hedge. Henry, you do not listen." "And he seemed honest, did he?" "Honest? No, not particularly. He seemed, I would say, cold. Yes, 'cold' is a good word to describe him and 'hungry' another.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

She shrugged another plump shoulder. "I never listened to Porter when he got going." Ah. At last. The secret to a successful marriage.

Just shut up and listen." "Well since you ask so nicely…." There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything. "Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what?

nothing helps a lie float like a hopeful listener.

Unfortunately, some men are a little hard-of-hearing. This is why about a quarter of them are completely surprised when their wives file for divorce.9 If you're talking to your husband about your feelings, you may have to make it very, very plain how unhappy you are with the current arrangement.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

Speak less than thou knowest.

No one who has private thoughts going on in his own head is quite sure of their not being overheard. Any child knows that.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors

Le seguí la corriente, claro, como se les sigue la corriente a todos los borrachos del mundo cuando empiezan a contar sus historias de borrachos.

que uno no podía ir por la vida sin oír un disco entero de los Beatles por lo menos una vez.

No todos los problemas se resuelven hablando.

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.