Quotes About Listening

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you… People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions.

There are three points about stories: if told, they like to be heard; if heard, they like to be taken in; and if taken in, they like to be told.

And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation , and wish that you'd listened to me.

He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.

Aku ingin melihat kehidupan. Aku milik rakyat. Aku harus melihat mereka, aku harus mendengarkan mereka, dan bersentuhan dengan mereka. Aku merasa bahagia kalau berada di tengah mereka. Bagiku mereka adalah roti kehidupan. Aku membutuhkan massa rakyat.

While he described his projects to me, I listened to him without being able to forget that he would not survive the week. What madness on his part to speek of the future, of his future! But once I had left, once I was outside, how to avoid thinking that after all, the difference was not so great between the mortal and the moribound? The absurdity of making plans is only a little more obvious in the second case.

We all need to be seen, appreciated, encouraged, validated, listened to. And whether or not we've been lucky enough to get that from other people when we needed it, we can be that person for others, which in a way allows us to be that person we needed for ourselves. When we share our time and creativity, our life and story become entwined with the lives and the stories we touch.

You don't ever have to say anything,' he says. 'Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

He has never understood the human compulsion for conversation: people, when they speak, say useless things that seldom if ever improve their lives. Their words make them sad. Why can't people stop talking and embrace each other?

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.

Many's the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing (page 64)

There isn't a woman I know who hasn't said they wished they'd listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women's lives are concerned: mothering, money, and men.

I see that I've never told you how I listen to music—I gently rest my hand on the record player and my hand vibrates, sending waves through my whole body: and so I listen to the electricity of the vibrations, the last substratum of reality's realm, and the world trembles inside my hands.

a respiração contínua do mundo é aquilo que ouvimos e chamamos de silêncio.

I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room.

All living is listening for a throat to open-- The length of its silence shaping lives. When he opened his mouth to speak, his speech was what was written in the silence, the length of the silence becoming a living.

Many people want to talk at the same time when no one listens. When one talks, everybody leaves.

There are many jobs in the world that require too much walking and talking, not listening. You can do the walking by just talking. But not talking while walking. Listening is bound somewhere.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

What do you mean, speak louder? If I could speak louder, I wouldn't need a telephone.

He knew where to drop the needle – an especially important qualification in the matter of Wagner, with whom it is an invariable rule that the most immediately accessible bits are never at the edge of the disc.