Quotes About Listening

You know I don't listen to market gossip," she began, "but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter's name is mentioned.

Train yourself to "listen for" requests and promises, rather than for assessments and assertions.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

This is why I love poems: they require me to sit still, listen deeply, and imagine putting myself in someone else's unfamiliar shoes. The world I return to when the poem is over seems fuller and more comprehensible as a result.

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to listen.

Shall I tell you what I'm thinking, Mrs. Ferrier?" "Heavens no, Nicholas! That would take hours, and we have only moments.

Why does Mr. Harsch hate you?" Reuben asked, somewhat absently, for he was only partly listening. He'd never been in a motorboat and was preoccupied by the rumble of the engine, the smell of exhaust fumes now drifting astern, the lovely rush of water along the sides. "Or, I mean, pretend to hate you?" "Who can say?" Jack replied with a shrug. "Maybe because I keep borrowing his boat." They

He cranked the key until the watch was fully wound, then withdrew the key and held the watch to his ear.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . ." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos del entendimiento.

Too often we parents make assumptions about our children's actions and motives. We lecture instead of listening. We always have an answer, instead of stopping to listen.2

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

What did I say about staying put?

I can hear others, but no one else can hear me. Makes for a lot of very boring, one-sided conversations. She

a dark cave listening to Webs drone on about the ancient past? This is history, happening right now. We're in the middle of it, or we should be.

I've learned to listen not to what peolpe have to say 4but how they say it. I watch them closly how they speak, in particular their eyes.Lips lie, but the eyes never do.

When people who don't trust one another engage in passionate debate, they are trying to win the argument. They aren't usually listening to the other person's ideas and then reconsidering their point of view; they're figuring out how to manipulate the conversation to get what they want.

The point here is that most reasonable people don't have to get their way in a discussion. They just need to be heard, and to know that their input was considered and responded to.

ALWAYS CONSULT INSTEAD OF SELL

They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop above their heads, where the weary helmsmen tended the new steering-oar and Babbington stood at the con, the men listened intently; it was the first sound of human life that they had heard, apart from the brief Christmas merriment, for a time they could scarcely measure.

As New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann once said, "In scholarship as in life, no one can possess the truth except by constantly learning it afresh; and no one can learn it afresh without listening to the people who are his companions on the search for that truth. Community does not necessarily mean agreement."13

Because men interrupt more often than women do, you need to learn to handle being interrupted rather than allowing the interruption to silence you. Think of an interruption not as a period in a sentence that ends a thought, but as a comma that merely pauses the thought. Your job is to complete the rest of the sentence.