Quotes About Listening

him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.

When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then

Words are important, to everyone. When they're not said, they leave holes.

He liked playing his music for her. She listened. When he played her something that sucked, she said so. Well, in a nice way, Theo thought. That kind of thing told him she was paying attention, real attention. Their mother never had. To much of anything. I'm not good with the word part. I just like doing the melody.

Not answering your phone is the equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and going: La la la.

make a fundamental change in the relationship between nations, organisations, religions and politics start to listen, learn and offer badly needed resources stop trying to impose our will on the rest of the world train our armies to offer constructive resolution to conflict not destructive work on our inner life and develop our humanity.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way. Over

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

If you're lis­ten­ing to this, you know that I'm dead.

People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Cuando la gente cree que te estás muriendo es cuando en verdad te escuchan, en lugar de estar esperando su turno para hablar

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you... You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Hollis Copper knows that everyone has a story and if you want to speak to someone, you better find a way to speak to his or her story.

It disturbed him to know that the machine was listening all the time, a mechanical voyeur—then again, that was the aching paranoia of modern life, was it not? Your phone, listening. Your TV, listening. People put devices in their houses that were always and forever listening. Sometimes, even watching.

T?cerea face parte din conversa?ie.

You have to listen not just to a submissive's words and physical cues, but to the heart and soul that lie beneath. They are giving you a gift, and it's your responsibility to cherish rather than abuse it. It's not just an exchange of power, you see. It's an exchange of trust. You have to trust them as much as you ask them to trust you." "This

They listen carefully and empathically, are nonjudgmental, are open to new experiences and perspectives, are approachable and friendly, and like to listen