Quotes About Listening

Face-to-face conversation is the most human—and humanizing—thing we do. Fully present to one another, we learn to listen. It's where we develop the capacity for empathy. It's where we experience the joy of being heard, of being understood.

Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).

there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My

There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Most people would rather listen to sermons than act on them.

You have to know things like: don't spend the whole time talking about yourself. I used to have a problem with this because silence makes me nervous and I fill it with whatever is in my head...

It's his way of saying that dreams are more important than we can ever imagine-we just need to listen.

Fear believes . . . no one is listening and no one cares. Love believes . . . in prayer.

On how important curatorial mobility is: You must move, and you must talk (but not too much), and you definitely must listen. - Francesco Bonami

Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.

people who don't hear you don't hear you.

If you tell someone ten times that you don't want to talk to him, you are talking to them—nine more times than you wanted to.

listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close. Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

It's quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, Thank you.

Esta noche no la besaré. O tocaré. O la veré de cerca. Esta noche escucharé. Y eso será suficiente

nobody answering

It almost seems that 'culture' requires aspirants to participate according to their specific qualifications, to become adherents to an immense task of justifying a 'logic' that knows very well how to say practically everything and hardly knows how to listen.

I'm going to my room," Jessie Kay called. "Y'all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.

I'm about to ask what he means by an "Allspaw," when he just waves my question away.

Ananda always wanted to listen and learn, while I was devoted to active practice. This is why I have already managed to attain supreme awakening, while Ananda has been taking care of my teachings. He will take care of the Dharma storehouses of future buddhas, and teach, transform, and develop multitudes of bodhisattvas. Such was his original vow. So now he receives this assurance.