Quotes About Listening

Sometimes we don't need advice. We just need somebody to listen.

I love being there for people when they're sad or need someone to talk too.

There's a difference between being there for someone and just being there, I hate when people confuse the two.

Silence always dosent mean yes, sometimes it means I am tired of explaining to people who even dont care to understand.

Give as much as you can, but don't allow yourself to be used. Listen to others closely, but don't lose your own voice.

There is no greater compliment than being trusted to listen to other people's problems.

Instead of fighting with your girl and being upset, put yourself in their shoes. There might just be more to the story that you don't know.

Hardly ever do we hear anything that does not make us regret something that we have said

Ao falar, imaginamos sempre que nos escutam com os nossos ouvidos, com a nossa alma.

When we are waiting, the double trajectory, from the ear that gathers in the sounds to the mind that processes and analyzes them, and from the mind to the heart to which it transmits its results, is so rapid that we are unable even to perceive its duration, and we seem to be listening directly with our hearts.

But as soon as I was with some one else, when I began to talk to a friend, my mind at once 'turned about,' it was towards the listener and not myself that it directed its thoughts, and when they followed this outward course they brought me no pleasure.

there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom of darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

But the absolute control over his facial muscles to which M. de Norpois had attained allowed him to listen without seeming to hear a word.

Matote, gyvenime, mano berniuk, ateina toksai laikas, <...>, kai pavargusios akys nebepakelia kitos šviesos tik t?, kuri? graži naktis, kaip šiandien, sukuria ir skleidžia kartu su tamsa, kai ausys nebegali klausytis kitos muzikos, o tik m?nesienos, grojan?ios tylos fleita.

The words that passed between the girls of the little band and myself were not of any interest; they were, moreover, but few, broken by long spells of silence on my part. All of which did not prevent me from finding, in listening to them when the spoke to me, as much pleasure as in gazing at them, in discovering in the voice of each one of them a brightly colored picture. It was with ecstasy that I caught their pipings.

The words that passed between the girls of the little band and myself were not of any interest; they were, moreover, but few, broken by long spells of silence on my part. All of which did not prevent me from finding, in listening to them when they spoke to me, as much pleasure as in gazing at them, in discovering in the voice of each one of them a brightly colored picture. It was with ecstasy that I caught their pipings.

E recomecei a escutar, a sofrer; quando estamos à espera, do ouvido que recolhe os ruídos ao espírito que os despoja e analisa, e do espírito ao coração a quem ele transmite os seus resultados, tão rápido é o duplo trajeto que nem sequer lhe podemos perceber a duração, e parece estarmos escutando diretamente com o nosso coração.

A necessidade de falar impede não só de escutar mas também de ver, e nesse caso a ausência de qualquer descrição do meio exterior é já uma descrição de um estado interno.

with the slight emotion which a man feels when, even without being fully aware of what he is doing, he says something, not because it is true but because he enjoys saying it, and listens to his own voice uttering the words as though they came from some one else,

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

le rispose la vecchietta in tono comprensivo <> <>

Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker's mind.

The ideal ratio, from the customer's point of view, is 5 to 1 or better. In other words, you should refer to the customer five times more than you refer to you and your company.

Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.