Quotes About Listening

From that moment on, I knew what it was to be a good student. A good student doesn't talk; she listens. I will say this about George: he was very clear about what was expected of us and told us when we did something wrong. Teenagers need that level of clarity sometimes for a lesson to sink in. There were so many others: don't take short cuts, work ethic is everything, and if nothing else, be gutsy.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.

Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

and Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.

Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience. Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes. He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment…and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant.

A queen must listen to all," she reminded him. "The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Mormont leaned forward. "Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.

Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.

be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.

Asha climbed quickly, to the fifth story and the room where her uncle read. Not that there are any rooms where he does not read. Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience. Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes. He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment . . . and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

The earth has music for those who listen.