Quotes About Listening

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I had to realize that other people had an opinion that counted, and I had to realize that other people had feelings, and you've got to watch their feelings and listen to what they have to say.

MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all. LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY. Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person.

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

I never talk during music--at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. 

Extraverted Feelers make fine salespeople who empathize with their customers, but so do Introverted Thinkers, who carefully listen to their customers without projecting their own needs.

Try asking for Nyx's help. Nyx would not hear me. Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. she has not heard me for eons. During those eons how many times did you ask for her help? Not once, he said Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

The effect now was much the same as if I had been listening in to a dramatic sketch on the wireless. I got the voices, but I missed the play of expression. And I'd have given a lot to be able to see it. Not Jeeves's, of course, because Jeeves never has any.

She was a shrewd woman, and knew that the art of life is to know when to stop talking. What words have accomplished, too many words can undo. Good-bye.

I am listening, I tell you. Get to the point. And talk quick, darn it. Remember it's costing forty-five bucks every three minutes.' For Mrs Moon was speaking from her apartment on Park Avenue, New York. And though it was the woman who would pay, waste even of other people's money was agony to Mr Frisby. He possessed twenty million dollars himself, and loved every cent of them.

Se calla cuando escucho, suena cuando me duermo.

Para que tú me oigas mis palabras se adelgazan a veces como las huellas de las gaviotas en las playas.