Quotes About Listening

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

There is no argument that I won't take seriously.

Podcasts feel about as accessible and ubiquitous as books or articles or anything like that.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Often the good saint sat mutely by and listened to the hatred of men who concealed themselves under the cloak of constitutional royalists. She shuddered as she foresaw the ruin of the Church.

The man is mad!" exclaimed Bianchon. "You think so, do you?" said his uncle. "If you listen to only one bell, you hear only one sound.

Huizen werden tot het Stille Volk gerekend. Muren hebben oren, maar geen tong. Huizen, bomen en doden zwijgen als het graf.

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Therapy opened me up and enabled me to appreciate how fulfilling it was to be truly heard. That led me to the thought: "You know, somebody else might actually have something to say. Let's just sit here and listen and not make it all about you.

The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

I believe in Jesus An' what the Bible said An' I am fairly certain He had himself a heavy head. He scared the lyin' people So bad, they hung him dead An' they never even listened To what he really said.

Who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

All people want is someone to listen.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

There's no such thing as a boring subject, only a bored listener who hasn't bothered to search for the relevance of the message to them.

To listen to someone means devoting time to the process, putting your own concerns on hold, remaining silent even when you're dying to say something. Patient listening also involves a willingness to postpone judgement about what is being said. Mostly, we want to rush in to agree, to disagree, to object, to correct; but listening demands the patience to let all that wait until the other person has finished saying to us what they want to say to us.

Here's the cardinal rule of the good listener: receive before you respond. [p97]

Not being heard is no reason for silence.