Quotes About Listening

phone and answered

with me to trace the call. And you

Sayin' goes, those who did the most talk the least and vice versa.

Authentic communication is much more than just talking. It is understanding and being understood; identifying a tone of voice; detecting nonverbal cues; responding appropriately to offense; resolving conflicts; knowing what to say, when to say it and how to say it; experiencing the risks and rewards of knowing and being known; and much more.

if there is listening through a "listener," then we are not listening.

My country is in the depths of lethargy and very apathetic, there is very little happening. There's no action in my country. This is quite a challenge to come over to a country like this where for me the most important thing to me is that the music is a communicative blanket media. Where at home it's merely something to listen to.

But we do know more about the fleet action that so nearly took place a few days after the battle of the Falkland Isles in December 1914, because it was the first naval action of any kind where one side was able, and with some clarity, to listen in to the thoughts, preparations and orders of the other.

let's discuss the purpose of this presentation. If we're here for the team to put on a show for me, then you're right, I should sit back and listen. But if the point is for me to learn about your business and its issues, then we need to conduct the presentation in a way that facilitates my learning. I need to ask questions right away, get the answers I need, and then move on.

It would be nice if I could make my wife happy now because she seems upset. I can ask what she's upset about and see if there might be a way I could help. Or instead of I shouldn't have eaten the ice cream, you can say, It would have been better if I hadn't eaten the ice cream, but it's not the end of the world that I did.

You should always listen to your woman, and then make your own decision. If you choose to go with your woman's suggestion even when deep in your heart you feel that another decision is more wise, you are, in effect, saying, "I don't trust my own wisdom." You are weakening yourself by telling yourself this. You are weakening your woman's trust in you: why should she trust your wisdom if you don't?

a man with the power to punish anyone never hears anything except what he wants to hear. or, what's worse, what his subordinates think he wants to hear—and they don't dare ask him what it is.

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.

Cuando hablamos de habilidades blandas, hablamos de capacidad de comunicación, de escucha, de regulación emocional, de empatía, de trabajo en equipo, de manejo de conflictos, entre otras.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.

the drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.

Everybody who really wants to knows what's true. Most people just don't want to. It means listening from deep inside. Most people just don't want to. But the special people listen. You can hear what's true, inside. Listen.

Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her.

That's why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. They're not saying effortless in terms of it didn't seem like the writer spent any work. It simply requires no effort to read it — the same way listening to an incredible storyteller talk out loud requires no effort to pay attention. Whereas when you're bored, you're conscious of how much effort is required to pay attention.

A neutral and affectless silence. The sort of all-defensive game Schtitt used to have me play: the best defense: let everything bounce off you; do nothing. I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.

What teachers and the administration in that era never appeared to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

There's no judgment. It's clear she's been punished enough. And it was basically the same all over, after all, Out There. And the fact that it was so good to hear her, so good that even Tiny Ewell and Kate Gompert and the rest of the worst of them all sat still and listened without blinking, looking not just at the speaker's face but into it, helps force Gately to remember all over again what a tragic adventure this is, that none of them signed up for.