Quotes About Listening

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

When a sizable group of customers speak, I always listen! The 'customers' view' is key to my confidence in decisions.

Don't ever get too busy to listen and connect because if you let yourself get stuck in that cycle, what are you actually working for anyway?

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.

When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.

Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other.

Communication is something we all take for granted.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

A great listener - that was my talent!

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

They talk most who have the least to say.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.