Quotes About Listening

Adults always talked about mistakes, the cost of doing the wrong thing. She wished she'd listened now.

How can I help you, my friend?" "I'm having a little trouble with my daughter, Suki." The caller's flattened vowels identified her as a midwesterner. "How old is Suki, Marge?" "Sixty-seven this November.

Mon Dieu, Isabelle, must you always speak whatever is on your mind?" Isabelle had heard this criticism all her life, but why should she hold her tongue? No one listened to her either way.

Americans. They didn't listen.

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I just do what I'm told.

Do not be afraid to ask your questions. But you must always be sure your heart is open to hear the answers.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

so that he could hear the things she wasn't saying and understand that she was with him.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Nervous people make poor listeners.

You know, in the past, I would've gotten yelled at for that kind of outspokenness. Now everyone listens as if what I have to say is important, and then they find ways to contradict me. I think I like the yelling better.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.

He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to.

If your brother pisses you off, tell him about. If he listens to you, he is your brother for life. Real profound. It is. Matthew said it. Who's Matthew? The Bible Matthew, yo? I doubt the Bible says "pissed off," Walt. I was paraphrasing. Just trying to elucidate the power of communication between brothers.

I am listening to the wind, to the voice in the wind telling me to write it all down. So I do.

Nathalie dropped into a crouch and fastened braces around her ankles, binding the soles of her feet with the broad bands of fabric holding the strange little knobs and springs and magnets (at least Inez thought they must be magnets). Each time a brace was clicked into place, a tiny green light on the clasp glinted. Inez cleared her throat, uncertain that Nathalie was even listening. "Perhaps you could ask after her and then message me which dome she's in?" Nathalie

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it was his English, his actual use of language, or if it was because people didn't really listen and instead put into the words they heard the words they expected to hear.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again...