Quotes About Listening

Shout long enough in capital letters and, eventually, people start to tune you out.

That's because unsolicited advice can be the match to the accelerant when all the other person needs is a hug.

You're in the middle of a conversation, listening to someone talk. All of a sudden your mind wanders to the report due tomorrow morning at work. That thought leads you to one about your co-worker who is supposed to have his portion of it completed for you. But will he come through?

I just don't know which is worse, to say nothing or to say too much.

Sometimes I think he's just chosen to keep quiet because it is so much more interesting sometimes to just listen to people instead of talking to them.

No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

To be a good sports parent, there are two basic requirements: a lot of driving and a lot of listening. Everything falls into place when both are achieved.

I like people who talk a lot. Since I don't.

You remember everything people say to you?' I locked into his eyes. 'Everything /some/ people say to me.

The peasants watched the trains with curiosity, listening intently to the strange humming sound of the human throng, neither groan, cry, nor song. The train went by, and as it pulled away one could still see against the dark background of the forest disembodied human arms waving tirelessly from the windows.

now would be great exercise." But Kennie wasn't listening. She ping-ponged over to the sectional couch with the rust-colored, cabin-in-the-woods pattern, where she fell face down into the nappy cloth. She twitched and wriggled

He said the government was always listening and that anything you had to say you should say in person.

And a tape recorder, spinning slow like taffy, taking down every word.

Claude's father was one of those guys who thought if you didn't laugh, it was because you hadn't heard the joke clearly enough.

Well, from now on, she would never complain when he got so engrossed in his laptop that he failed to hear anything that she was saying.

It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk.

She talked too much, and evidently not in the right ways or about the right things.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

He enjoys the passivity of sitting in a classroom again, listening to an instructor, being told what to do. He is reminded of being a student, of a time when his father was still alive.

And so, instead of saying Ashoke's name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as "Are you listening to me?

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.