Quotes About Listening

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Joy is in the ears that hear, not in the mouth that speaks. The world has few stories glad in themselves, and we must have gay ears to defy Despite" Foamfollower from (Lord Foul's Bane; 1977)

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

there is a profound difference between doing things for God and doing what God tells us to do.

Listening to God requires a commitment to turn down the volume of outer noise and to be quiet, to become centered and focused.

Buda disse "Se sua boca estiver aberta, você não está aprendendo", e Calvin Coolidge disse, "Ninguém jamais foi despedido por escutar demais".

When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

I've noticed how most people don't know how to listen.

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Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer."

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I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

A lot of people make records where there are a couple songs worth listening to and you skip through the rest, and I don't want to do that because those records bore me pretty bad.

I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon record and skip a song: you listen to it the same way you would eat a meal... the way the person who prepared that meal for you means for you to experience it. That's how you should do it before you add salt and pepper to it.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.

I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.'

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell my wife when she's listening to my songs that the slightest hint of whether she likes it or not puts the pressure on me.