Quotes About Listening

Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

nimelt et eavesdropping, salaja pealtkuulamine, mitte ainult ei ole mõlemas linnas [Cambridge ja Oxford] laialdaselt harrastatud tegevus, vaid oli, on ja jääb parimaks (ehkki algeliseks) vajalike teadmiste kogumise mooduseks, kui ei taheta muutuda autsaideriks, kes midagi ei tea ja kel pole midagi jagada.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso', pensé, 'es saber, es estar enterado y estar al tanto, los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde.

One of the habits that Dr. Stephen Covey discusses in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

if you can talk to them about themselves, you'll have their full attention.

So I'm living this life. Maybe, someday, I'll be able to choose another. For now, I can't. What keeps me sane - so to speak - is that I can listen. And you should too. You might think you can ignore people like me. But there are a lot of us. It's in your interest to hear what we're saying.

Life just throws you places, and if you wait, if you listen, you can see the blessings.

Talk between women friends is always therapy...

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Always a good listener, FDR was at his best in these exchanges. "I want you to feel that you can come to me at any time in my office," he was soon telling union spokesmen, "and we can talk matters over. Let's get together for I need you to teach me your business and show me what's going on.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.