Quotes About Listening

Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

observes and analyzes accurately what the prospective buyer does and says, but also what the prospective buyer does not do or say.

We practitioners and quants aren't too fazed by remarks on the part of academics—it would be like prostitutes listening to technical commentary by nuns.

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio (only when the words outperform silence). These

In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all.

Usually, what we call a "good listener" is someone with skillfully polished indifference.

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise.

Listening to the news on the radio every hour is far worse for you than reading a weekly magazine, because the longer interval allows information to be filtered a bit.

The wise man listens to meaning; the fool only gets the noise. The modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy wrote a piece in 1915 after Philostratus' adage "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

You may ask any question. Some, however, must be answered by silence

This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He pointed to his chest. 'I keep truth here. Not in other people's ears.' ?The Night Butcher

She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

The poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead.

people diminish me; the longer I sit and listen to them the more empty I feel but I don't get the idea that they feel empty, I feel that they enjoy the sound from their mouths.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.

We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

He just stares. He's so quiet. That's the way we want him. Still water runs deep. Not with this one. The only thing that runs deep with him are the holes in his ears.

This is very creative," said Mrs. Fretag, and she began to read my essay. The words sounded good to me. Everybody was listening. My words filled the room, from blackboard to blackboard, they hit the ceiling and bounced off, they covered Mrs. Fretag's shoes and piled up on the floor.

Lo más agradable de él era que nunca hablaba, a menos que se le preguntara algo. Nunca le pregunté nada.

as the night darkened I'd go back to Pershing Square and sit on the benches and watch and listen to the people. the winos on the lawn passed bottles of muscatel and port about as the war rushed toward us.