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Quotes About Listening

quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perché c'è. Dentro di te c'è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c'è una vocina. Ascoltala. Questi la chiamano «Dio», quelli la chiamano qualcos'altro, ma c'è.
~ Tiziano Terzani
The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.
~ Toby Forward
You'd be surprised what a guy can learn by staying quiet
~ Tod Goldberg
The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham
~ Tom Cunningham
I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers... and I begin to loop and process and change them.
~ Thomas Newman
I used to do interviews - I still do - interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they're at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
~ Ian Gillan
My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative.
~ Julian Treasure
I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.
~ Tom Segura
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
~ Joan Chen
If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.
~ Tony Dungy
I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.
~ Cathy Moriarty
I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
~ Trent Lott
There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.
~ Maurice Flanagan
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.
~ Ayanna Pressley
I don't say too much. Quavo and Offset - I don't talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.
~ Takeoff
I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
~ Kat Dennings
One of the biggest things growing up that my dad taught me is that if I was okay to talk about my feelings and express how I felt and not get angry, then he would listen to me. If I had issues, I would just tell him, 'Here's how I feel, this is what I'm feeling,' either with him or with my mom.
~ Gnash
If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.
~ Young Thug
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
~ George Santayana
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.
~ Sara Pascoe
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.
~ Stefon Diggs