Quotes About Listening

It's in the silence you feel you hear.

Su alma se desvaneció lentamente al escuchar el dulce descenso de la nieve a través del universo, su dulce caída, como el descenso de la última postrimería, sobre todos los vivos y los muertos.

He turned back the way he had come, the rhythm of the engine pounding in his ears. He began to doubt the reality of what memory told him. He halted under a tree and allowed the rhythm to die away. He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

Not far from the porch of the club a harpist stood in the roadway, playing to a little ring of listeners. He plucked at the wires heedlessly, glancing quickly from time to time at the face of each new-comer and from time to time, wearily also, at the sky. His harp too, heedless that her coverings had fallen about her knees seemed weary alike of the eyes of strangers and of her master's hands.

She bows her old head to a voice that

It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.

Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's your friend and it wants you to be at peace with it.

because they listened to Black Sabbath." "Why didn't he get the injection table?

Listening is seen as one of the most important leadership skills.

There is no possibility of conversation with a loudspeaker.

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.

And you're blind? Uh-huh, Iggy said, trying to sound bored. Were you born that way? No. How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it? Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.

Being a police officer isn't restricted to saving someone from physical injuries. Sometimes it's about sitting down with people who desperately need to talk—and need someone to really listen

You want to change someone's mind? Start with their ears.

if I did. Bear's not exactly a good listener. "Uh-huh," he said.

ways of scanning for radio signals." She followed him as he ran into the gun room and spun

There's a Navajo saying, "Even the still wind has a voice." In the quiet, confessing hotel room, I listen.

The unhappy people are those who listen to others. I never listened to anyone, and I'm very happy.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

I listen to unhealthy amount of Kanye. The Fugees. Also, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

I really enjoy listening to Japanese pop aka J-Pop and I also like listening to anime songs as well. Both of these types of music are unique to Japanese culture and listening to these types of music gets me going.