Quotes About Listening

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather than the eye. Small things like identifying speakers in dialogue rather than relying on paragraphing to mark the shifts.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

I want God to be speaking louder than the music.

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

I listen to a lot of Beatles. I have a very specific Beatles discography that I go to.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum.