Quotes About Listening

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

This hasn't been a conversation, Bobby Tom. You haven't said one single thing that matters." She

My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew them seven times.

This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were to remain silent, listen, perhaps in response you might be able to move in a new way. Glide into it slowly, aware of every slight difference, skin and cells intelligent, reading. But trained as you are in certain regimens, chances are you proceed directly according to the old patterns, trying again what was tried before.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination. Your job, as a warrior of the Lord, is to listen. To walk in faith.

I've heard girls like it when you listen

If you invite representative voices, shouldn't you listen to them, even when their claims are at odds with what you want to believe? West German beliefs about East Germany are so tenacious that the subjects of concern went unheard. In America, when white people tell black people how to feel about their own history, it's called whitesplaining. There isn't a word for it in German.