Quotes About Listening

His short attention span was both endearing and aggravating. His mind would wander so much that those who really needed to speak with him tried to isolate him from distractions. "To talk to Gordon you had to take him in the car, drive and not let him turn on the radio," one said.

And he keeps listening to seas that love nothing but themselves. But maybe now he listens to nothing, stalled in forgetfulness and salt.

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity. The least he could do was return the favor.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

She is no longer speaking. Clearly, some response is required

Nadie es perfecto, y lo que ella sabe con toda certeza es que él es bello y él le hace sentirse bella. Y cuando ella habla, él en realidad escucha. Y cuando él la mira, él realmente la mira.

Lambiase thinks he hears the little girl call A.J. "Daddy." "Ugh, I keep telling her not to call me that," A.J. says. "But she won't listen.

I want to know your ideas," Sam said. "I really want to know them. I love hearing your ideas. That's my favorite thing in the world.

Godly saints will always tell you that the inward witness of the Spirit is most clearly heard when you are quiet before him in prayer. It is then that his still, small voice can be most clearly heard. It is not then drowned out by the noisiness and busyness of our lives.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own...Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupts, I never deflect the course of conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you're a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.

I close my eyes and listen vaguely in a half sleep as he does the things he does before he sleeps each night. Brushing and squirting and splashing. So many things. People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

The most basic thing was to eat food in its most unadulterated form, eat as much as you want, whenever you want, because with real food the body will tell you when it's had enough.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Mr. Ferris didn't say anything the whole time. He sat next to me and listened. And when I finished, I looked at him. He was crying. I'm not lying. He was crying. I don't think it was because how hard I hit him. I know how the Black-Backed Gull feels when he looks up into the sky. Maybe, somehow, Mr. Ferris does too.

What can I tell you? My heart has selective hearing.