Quotes About Listening

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

He was listening so I don't remember.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps.

Just shut up and talk. - Shella

Now you're listening to Swedish ?" I asked her. "He thinks I'm the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

You're sure? I thought I heard someone.""Nope, not a soul, " Blake said. "Get it. Soul. Because we're in a church.

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.