Quotes About Listening

It's about leading with my ears instead of my mouth," Ferlazzo says. "It means trying to elicit from people what their goals are for themselves and having the flexibility to frame what we do in that context.

In one typical study, researchers found that physicians interrupt the majority of patients in the first eighteen seconds the patient speaks during an appointment, which often prevents the patient from describing what brought her to the office in the first place.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

He would buy me a pair of headphones if I would promise to use them when he was home. Those headphones forever changed the way I listened to music.

For a child or an adult, it's extremely powerful to hear someone say, "I get you. I understand. I see why you feel this way." This kind of empathy disarms us.

Connection means that we give our kids our attention, that we respect them enough to listen to them, that we value their contribution to problem solving, and that we communicate to them that we're on their side—whether we like the way they're acting or not.

The key to clinical attunement is to be willing to say "I don't know" and "tell me more.

This is the PART we play in helpful communication. PART means that we are present, attune, resonate, and create trust.

By wondering what our kids are trying to accomplish and by allowing them to explain a situation before we rush to judgment, we're able to gather actual data from their

The basic approach, though, usually entails listening and providing lots of verbal and nonverbal empathy. This is how we attune to our children, tuning in to the inner life of their mind—to their feelings and thoughts, to their perceptions and memories, to what has inner subjective meaning in their lives.

Sin embargo, queremos enseñarles que la empatía consiste poco en dar consejos ni en encontrar el lado afirmativo de las cosas. Consiste más en escuchar, hacer compañía y compartir los sentimientos. Queremos enseñarles frases como: «Eso duele mucho» o «No sé qué decir, pero siento que haya pasado eso».

Y si hacemos hincapié en lo positivo? En vez de «Basta de lloriqueos», podríamos decir algo como: «Me gusta más cuando hablas con tu voz normal, ¿puedes repetir eso?» O ser incluso más directo en la enseñanza de la comunicación efectiva: «Pídemelo otra vez, pero con tu voz fuerte de chico mayor.»

Moon hangs, almost full pieces of cloud scatter, glide in soft, summer breeze. We lay in our meadow listening to the sound of night....

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

I invite a variety people on my show with wide-ranging opinions - sometimes even my jaw hits the floor, too - but I let them speak. Whether it's left, right, or center, I want to expose my viewers to other perspectives. Agree with them or not, the nation needs to listen.

I think the British viewing and listening public are very fickle. If they like you they will listen to you, they will watch you. If they change their mind then it's all over.

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

Whatever I'm writing has seemed to be about something I don't feel I could freely express in my everyday life, and stand-up is a really effective medium for getting people to hear exactly the things and viewpoints that they normally don't want listen to.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

I am not active in sharing my views on social media but I observe a lot.