Quotes About Listening

You gain a lot of insight from employees by listening to them.

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

Sometimes I've made mistakes and not really listened to my instincts, and I've done a project, and I've been disappointed with the consequence, I think, as a consequence of not listening to whatever part of me it is that, at its base, is interested in telling interesting stories.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

I'm not one that listens to a whole lot of advice... I go with my gut instincts.

I think it is definitely right to listen to the Party and follow up government's instructions.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

I think the music defends myself. I don't think anyone should put a race on any genre. It's just a way of expressing yourself through instruments and sounds, right? People can just listen to the music.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

I may not raise my voice a lot, I may not be very flashy, but I like to interact with people.

When men sit around and talk, they are very competitive. One person will tell an anecdote and the next person will try to top that. When you get six women together, they share a lot more. They will be far more interested in what the other person has to say. The conservation is more interactive and less about individually showing off.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I've gone on so many shows, I've wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don't like that.

If you interrupt somebody too early, if you miss it and don't interrupt at all - that's the difference between a good interview and a bad interview. It's about the absolute moment.

He had always been such a peerless creature. Shelby had the manners of a prince (an imaginary one, not a real one; real ones had no manners), the bearing of a noble spirit. She could tell him everything and he never got bored if she didn't stay clever. No lights went out in his eyes. And he could tell her anything: boring things about what he'd been doing—only she didn't get bored, she just liked the sound of his voice.

Listen for the body signals that tell you that you are no longer hungry. Observe the signs that show that you're comfortably full. Pause in the middle of a meal or snack and ask yourself how the food tastes, and what your current fullness level is.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

his message was always succinct and startling: 'If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.' Manly

If ever I utter the words I think,' he declared on one occasion, 'I hope the people will go to sleep and remain asleep until I have done with thinking. We are not here to give our thoughts, but God's words.

Alyce asks about my religion ... she listens without interruption. Then she tells me what she believes, and I listen. I see nothing wrong with listening to each other's beliefs. I want to know about her religion, just as she wants to know about mine. We can talk about our beliefs without pushing each other to feel wrong.