Quotes About Listening

If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke.

When someone shows you a picture of their kids what they don't want to hear is Oh, yeah, I got pictures of your kid too.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

It's true,' he said, 'I have never believed in single answers, never believed in this…this divisive clash of singularity. Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.' He glanced over to see Scillara and Felisin staring at him. 'There's no difference,' he said, 'between speaking aloud or in one's own head – either way, no-one listens.

People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.

Because true friends knew when to keep silent, to give all the patience needed.

She's not listening to us!" "We've been talking too much, that's the problem." "You're right. We should say something important, so she starts listening to us again.

There's no difference,' he said, 'between speaking aloud or in one's own head – either way, no-one listens.

Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into beliefs, mindless as serpents devouring their own tail.

An explosion groans to the west of them, and Arrow involuntarily looks in the direction of the sound. Nermin, who hasn't looked, smiles. 'I think they're trying to send us a message.' 'What is the message?' she asks as another shell lands in the same area. Nermin shrugs. 'I don't know. I'm making a special effort not to listen.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Bayard was a blade of radiant light, the power of the sun. Yet he was serene, controlled. He listened to Khaster's outpourings in the stillness, perhaps fascinated.

I listened to them being bravely humorous, overtaken by a sense of distance from them, sheer unreality.

Listen, then, for I am a soulscaper and have the gift of the story tongue.

Tahira was tall and unbent by age, although her advanced years showed in the weathering of her face. Long, grey hair that looked as strong as steel wire curled down over her shoulders. She wore heavy jewelry of malachite inlaid silver at her throat and wrists, around her spare shoulders hung a large, fringed shawl of red and yellow silk. She listened without expression as Qimei explained what he required of her.

You must always talk to me. My ears will hear and my heart will heal you.

I heard your dreams, Tamara Trewlynn. I heard your lonely call.