Quotes About Listening

When asked a question, I try to consult my own feelings. If I sense it as being real and containing no other message than the question, then I will try my best to answer it. I feel no social compulsion, however, to answer simply because it is phrased as a question. There may be other message in it far more important than the question itself.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

It is with sadness that every so often I spend a few hours on the internet, reading or listening to the mountain of stupidity dressed up with the word "quantum.

La Natura si sta comportando con noi come quell'anziano rabbino da cui erano andati due uomini per dirimere una contesa. Ascoltato il primo, il rabbino dice: "Hai ragione". Il secondo insiste per essere ascoltato, il rabbino lo ascolta e gli dice: "Hai ragione anche tu". Allora la moglie del rabbino, che orecchiava da un'altra stanza, urla: "Ma non possono avere ragione entrambi!". Il rabbino ci pensa, annuisce, e conclude: "Anche tu hai ragione".

Que a felicidade não dependa do tempo, nem da paisagem, nem da sorte, nem do dinheiro. Que ela possa vir com toda simplicidade, de dentro para fora, de cada um para todos. Que as pessoas saibam falar, calar, e acima de tudo ouvir. Que tenham amor ou então sintam falta de não tê-lo. Que tenham ideais e medo de perdê-lo. Que amem ao próximo e respeitem sua dor. Para que tenhamos certeza de que: "Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Communicating with awareness and kindness, and listening without judgement, are at the heart of good nursing practice.

saber convertirse en una oreja perfecta.

The Art of Asking,

before a victim of a scam will inch back from the precipice, he or she needs to feel respected and supported. Helpful relatives and friends can encourage the person to talk about his or her values and how those values influenced what happened while they listen uncritically. Instead of irritably asking "How could you possibly have listened to that creep?" you say, "Tell me what appealed to you about the guy that made you trust him.

When the horse gives a little, praise a lot. Love and kindness are both the method and the reward. What you give is what you get back. You must be quiet to hear them speak. Everything in sequence. Always work the horse in the same spot. It's like his desk in school. Always end on a good note. Wean the horse off treats quickly.

you want to know what I know and hear what I like to hear.

I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

He heard something. I heard it too. Something larger than a squirrel and this is the Stephen King book Gerald's Game and unlike Gerald's wife, whose husband was dead and bad, I have someone to live for: you.

you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.

I am sick of missing out on your words. What if you said something important? What if you revealed something to me and I missed it?

When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy, integrated entity.

I may not take cristicism well, but that doesn't mean I'm not hearing it. I'll hear it later. Right now I'm storing it in my delayed response area, because it's hard for me. I wish I was someone who welcomed cristicism and immediately understood its valeu, but I'm not, and if I look unhappy about this, I am.

Back in the days before CDs, or even cassette recordings, I would spend hours consumed with listening to rhythmic vinyl record albums, unaware that they infiltrated my subconscious with mystical religiosity.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

There 's music in all things, if men had ears: