Quotes About Listening

The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen.

We are all whispering in a tin can on a string, but we are heard, so we whisper the message into the next tin can and the next string.

You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen.

All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library's simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.

All the things that are wrong in the world seem conquered by a library's simple unspoken promise: Here I am, please tell me your story; here is my story, please listen.

Deep, quiet listening is a great gift.

Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time. While no single conversation is guaranteed to transform a company, a relationship, or a life, any single conversation can. Speak and listen as if this is the most important conversation you will ever have with this person. It could be. Participate as if it matters. It does.

Seeking out people with different views, different perspectives, different ideas is often challenging, because it requires us to set aside judgment and open our minds. But we have to remind ourselves that to get beyond where we are, where I believe most of us are, we would all be be well served to choose our music carefully, to stop talking and listen to one another.

He was silent. I waited, not knowing if he was asleep, men having the ability to fall asleep even when the conversation is about themselves.

E quando poi davanti a te si apriranno tante strade e non saprai quale prendere, non imboccarne una a caso, ma siediti e aspetta. Respira con la profondità fiduciosa con cui hai respirato il giorno in cui sei venuta al mondo, senza farti distrarre da nulla, aspetta e aspetta ancora. Stai ferma, in silenzio, e ascolta il tuo cuore. Quando poi ti parla, alzati e và dove lui ti porta.

Two Questions Every Caregiver Needs to Hear: How can I help? Want to talk about it? Ask. Listen. Then listen some more..."- Stress relief author, Susie Mantell

Listen to Yourself. It isn't easy to sit still for yourself. Especially, Ruth points out, "when we're uncomfortable. And this is uncomfortable stuff, because there's something nagging, and you don't know what it is, and you don't know what to do about it, with a capital do.

He met her eyes in the mirror. "I thought you weren't talking to me ever again." "I'm not," she said. ... "I'm talking to myself while you eavesdrop.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings ... even the birds stop to listen.

No, true story," Peeta says. "And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings... even the birds stop to listen.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

People keep talking at me, talking, talking, talking

and Woof, a really old guy who's hard of hearing and doesn't seem to know what's going on since he keeps trying to stuff poisonous bugs in his mouth.

Sometimes I listen to them and sometimes I just watch the perfect line of Coin's hair and try to decide if it's a wig.

Never interrupt a lady when she is speaking to you, as if what you have to say is more important.

If you ask for an opinion, expect to receive one, and don't make fun of it.

The first and most important money lesson you need to teach your children is to put money in its place. Ask your children—even children as young as four or five—what they love most. Do not guide them, just listen to what they value.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.