Quotes About Listening

Silence is safer than speech.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.

I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

How did I write 'Spin Me?' I listened to Luther Vandross's 'I Wanted Your Love.'

The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.