Quotes About Listening

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

Men don't hear women.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I hear you in the morning sun.