Quotes About Listening

I used to love Andre The Giant. I could sit around all day and listen to Andre stories. He was such a wonderful, unique guy who everyone loved being around. The thing about Andre, he just had this magical mystique about him.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

I'm all about unity and loving your neighbor... If somebody told me when I was growing up that the music I was listening to was stupid, and I listened to them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

When you listen to other women's stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.