Quotes About Listening

Možeš da kažeš šta ti je volja, sve dok ne osporavaš moju re?.

Even a hungry audience is better than a deaf audience.

Que hay al otro lado de la vida?¿Es solo noche silenciosa y soledad? ¿Que queda cuando no hay deseos, recuerdos ni esperanzas? ¿Que hay en la muerte? Si pudiera permanecer inmovil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, sin llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio mas completo, tal vez entonces pudiera oirte, hija.

de la pasión política, nadie escuchaba las voces razonables que llamaban al diálogo o la negociación.

Do you know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone.

According to Rebecca Solnit in her book Men Explain Things to Me

Si pudiera permanecer inmóvil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio más completo, tal vez entonces podría oírte, hija.

On our way back to her house, I didn't look at the city lights any longer. I looked into the sky and felt as if the moon was following us. When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, "In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion." That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.

Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one's heart, in one's blood, until the day it will become useful.

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion. That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.

Fortunately for Canada it is part of the so-called Five Eyes network, along with the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand. These nations are in fact so integrated that they effectively comprise a single colossal listening organization, the most powerful in history, with America in charge.

That's one of the problems with the Zeppelin stuff. It sounds ridiculous on MP3. You can't hear what's there properly.

I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.

I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.

Ground zero for me is audio.

I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars 'device-free zones.' We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work.

I was obsessed with 'The Twilight Zone' as a kid, and one of those things I didn't realize until I was in college was that I had been listening to Bernard Herrmann all my life.

I like to sit and listen to conversations here in Nashville. Not in a weird, stalker-ish way. I wander around Tennessee and find myself in little bars just zoning in.

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Never give advice unless asked.

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.