Quotes About Listening

A good silence never harmed anyone but speaking often causes harm.

nondefensive communication is one of the hardest skills to master. But it's also one of the most important.

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.

You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.

Studies show that the number-one factor for engagement among non-management employees is their perception that they are heard at work.

Prayer was talking and listening and being excited to spend time with someone who loves you.

He'd heard communication described as two monologues clashing, with each person waiting for their turn to speak instead of actively listening.

A sister smiles when one tells one's stories — for she knows where the decoration has been added.

Linda waited, knowing Knox would fill the silence. On average, men tended to interrupt a woman after eight seconds. If a woman didn't talk, most men couldn't last four seconds, according to social scientists with government funding and a stopwatch.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear" (Isaiah 28:11-12).

Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative". Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about. Crime, I'm conservative. Prostitution, I'm liberal!

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

Bal gibi tatl? sesi vard? ama, gereksiz konu?may? sevmezdi.

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

She has never tried to find out what happened to her family — her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.

Eighty-two years later, the sound of her crying still haunts me. If only I had paid closer attention to why she was crying instead of simply trying to quiet her. If only I had paid closer attention.

story. (And anyway, Lori doesn't ask "why" questions. She's only

When you are tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it" – Jeff Weiner,

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

What's amazing about speech is that when you're on the receiving end, listening to the noise that comes out of people's mouths, you instantaneously hear meaningful language. Yet speech is just sound, a semicontinuous buzz that fluctuates rapidly and regularly. Frequencies rise and fall, harmonics within the frequencies change their relationships to one another, air turbulence increases and dies away. It gets loud, and then it gets quiet.

Die eerlikste manier om die verhaal te vertel, is stilte.

Am I supposed to be merely exercising my tongue Or am I being listened to?