Quotes About Listening

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

When you're uncomfortable with the words you're using, it becomes obvious to your listeners. When they recognize your discomfort, their defenses are likely to go up making the continuation of the conversation or sales process more challenging than when you are comfortable with what you're saying. This is where dedication to your craft becomes very important.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.

Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.

What ever-sharper, real-time data about people's actual listening behavior do is more strongly reinforce the feedback loop.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.

Some people really can't afford to give me a piece of their mind.

To win power, we need self-discipline not self-indulgence; listening to what people are truly saying, not hearing only the parts we want to hear.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

even sure I heard the music. Maybe you

Leaphorn had found that listening carefully to lies is sometimes very revealing of the truth.

our quality of life is the quality of communication

Speak then, dear lady. I am a field of corn." "Field of corn?" "All ears.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I want to be a mom who listens.

and I always dream about meeting some mysterious person who will listen to me and understand me. I know from books that such people exist, but you can't find any of them on my childhood street.

The fact that we are so incredibly uninterested in what is happening inside the person closest to us is probably the source of many problems.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

Mari was hardly listening. A daring thought was taking shape in her mind. She began to anticipate a solitude of her own, peaceful and full of possibility. She felt something close to exhilaration, of a kind that people can permit themselves when they are blessed with love.

It looks as if neither of us will ever convince the other. But do we need to?" "No, the other person only needs to listen and understand." "I can accept that." - The Hothouse

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.