Quotes About Listening

need to say something like this to our spouses if there is going to be a genuine atmosphere of truth and openness: "Honey, I want to be the best spouse I can be, and I want our marriage to grow. I want you to know that if there is anything I'm doing or not doing that is bothering you, I want you to share it with me. I may not agree with everything you say, but I will validate it, and we will talk things out.

What seemed novel about the use of focus groups in the 1992 campaign was the increasingly narrow part of the population to which either party was interested in listening, and the extent to which this extreme selectivity had transformed the governing of the country, for most of its citizens, into a series of signals meant for someone else.

Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.

arguing too loudly to hear him. He sometimes couldn't help

The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that is.

I don't understand a word you're saying, snapped Odin. That's because you're throttlin' me, sir, said Sugar. Odin loosened his grip.

Nem tudod elhallgattatni a kutyát? A fiú szánakozva nézett rá. -Nem igazán. - felelte. - Vlad hisz a szólásszabadságban.

Porque um contador de histórias não morre nunca, mantém-se sempre vivo nas suas histórias enquanto houver álguem para as ouvir.

Talvez a imaginação lhe mostrou, ao longe, o famoso olho da opinião, a fitá-lo sarcasticamente, com um ar de pulha; talvez uma boca invisível lhe repetiu ao ouvido as chufas que ele escutara ou dissera outrora.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

Everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing. It's more important to be there than to be right.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

But what if-- I realize that I don't want him to disappear. I may not fully believe he's real; I may not understand why I can hear him speaking to me--but I sort of like it. I like knowing that of all the people in the world, I'm the only one listening to what he has to say. It makes me feel like we've been destined for each other.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories for all our differences turn out if we listen well to be our stories also.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

Encourage others, help out where you can, give an ear to listen, and hands for help wherever you can.

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

I like when people tell me about their family issues, I feel like I know them better.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Don't talk about yourself so much... we'll do that when you leave.

That moment when you're in a really bad mood and your parents won't stop talking to you...

Do they ever shut up on your planet?