Quotes About Listening

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

People in fact talk most often for their own sake, and with a need to hear the echo of their words.

A leader is there to promote a depth of sharing and listening and to keep everyone focused

Lassan azért kezdek rájönni, hogy sokszor azokra érdemes odafigyelni, akik nem járatják folyton a szájukat.

Espero para oír lo que va a decir sobre su amigo, pero se queda callado. Sigue hablando dentro de su cabeza. Frases enteras le pasan a toda velocidad delante de los ojos. No puedo leerlas.

She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.

After all, you could use your outside voice and scream your head off, but sometimes it didn't seem as if the screaming was being heard.

Nor is it simply the small socialist gatherings Joe attends, though he hates to be a joiner, can't stand to be part of a group, even for a cause he believes in like this one, sitting earnest and cross-legged on someone's mildewed carpet and just listening, just taking information in, not offering anything of his own.

They wanted someone to say the thing that they could then take into themselves and transform into something else. A word might land in a certain way; or maybe not even a word. Maybe a gesture, or a moment of listening.

strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit

We each have only one voice, and the world is so loud. Sometimes I think that the quiet ones have figured out that the best way to get other people's attention is not to shout, but to whisper. Which makes everyone listen a little harder.

There are no boring stories. Only a failure to truly listen.

If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside—the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

silence from one party always resulted in information from another.

When one is silent, those around speak even more

playing the same music on one of those Discmans