Quotes About Listening

To understand a woman, you have to listen to her when she is looking at you, not when she is talking.

The best way to give yourself advice is by giving it to someone else.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

I learned to sleep through the day so that I would not be tired when he returned; he always needed to talk then, to tell me down to the last detail about the faces and the wounds and the movements of men. And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.

Dü?man?n? dinleme, demi?ti Odysseus bir keresinde bana. Onlara bak.Gördüklerin her ?eyi anlatacakt?r.

I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

So the people went to Meleager, to beg him for his help. And— Achilles, are you listening?" "Yes, Father." "You are not. You are tormenting our poor Skops." I tried to look tormented.

They never listened. The truth is, men make terrible pigs.

But even when people are too weak to speak, or have lost consciousness, they can hear; hearing is the last sense to fade.

Trump knew that he was being told something he did not fully comprehend, and instead of acknowledging that, he shouted down the teachers.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people fell about their gender or sexuality - or anything else, really - is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality - or anything else, really - is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or sexuality - or anything else, really - is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality—or anything else, really—is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without

How to explain that for some, or for some at some times, this irresolution is OK--desirable, even--whereas for others, or for others at some times, it stays a source of conflict or grief? How does one get across the fact that the best way to find out how people feel about their gender or their sexuality--or anything else, really--is to listen to what they tell you, and to try to treat them accordingly, without shellacking over their version of reality with yours?

She will not, she tells herself, be the first to speak. Let him decide what should be said, since he is so skilled with words, since he is so fêted and celebrated for his pretty speeches. She will keep her counsel. He is the one who has caused this problem, this breach in their marriage: He can be the one to address it.

To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*

Stephen Covey's sixth habit of highly successful people, "Seek first to understand—then to be understood," applies to highly successful business developers.

I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.

To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.