Quotes About Listening

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.

Frieda smiled. "It's lesson number one in therapist school," she said. "It's the way of avoiding being put on the spot. So that whatever your patient says to you, you just say, 'What do you mean by that?' And then you're off the hook.

We believe an international women's movement needs to focus less on holding conventions or lobbying for new laws, and more time in places like rural Zimbabwe, listening to communities and helping them get their girls into school.

Later on, he would tell me that people often told him their problems, so perhaps he just had one of those faces. Actually, it wasn't his face, I don't think. It was his soul. He had one of those souls that makes you want to bare your own.

Anyone can talk,' she said, 'but the cleverest people spend their time listening.' And that really pleased me. It provided me with an identity, a sort of camouflage, so I could sit and listen to you all and not get noticed an not be judged for not saying anything.

Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?

We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

She said nothing, hoping her silence would goad him into explaining.

I want to learn, to wander and ask and think and listen like…like a priest of a prince." "Not gold?" "Gold comes to priests and princes.

She had found that people, especially people who spoke a different tongue, would get anxious if they didn't get to have their say in their own way, even if they spoke in a long rush, burying to get their words out.

Ninety feet over my head the canopy of ash and white basswood shivered the constant mountain breeze; it was never quiet, not even at night. I stood for a while and just listened.

She cocked her head slightly as though listening to a voice only she could hear.

Hild found herself listening beyond the hall, beyond the crackle of the fire, beyond the thumping scratch of a dog under the trestle, half expecting to hear an unearthly shriek as the sentry's throat was cut.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

Most of the women were frank in their assessment of the men, gossiping about which make a good husband, which good sport. Hild mostly listened to the birds.

Listen twice as much as you talk and others will hear twice as much of what you say.

Don't interrupt, but be interruptible.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

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