Quotes About Listening

Proverbs 18:13 reminds us that "He who answers before listening—that is his folly and his shame.

The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another.

Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don't listen at all. They are deciding what to say. Don't be such a parent. The Proverbs remind you that the fool does not delight in understanding, but in airing his own opinion (Proverbs 18:2).

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way.

Talking to my dad is like talking to a wall!!;)

I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

Listen more than you speak.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.