Quotes About Listening

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.

In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant.

People think I'm kind and considerate and that I listen and evaluate and give each party a chance to talk. The public's perception of judges seems to be improving because of what I'm doing, and that makes me happy.

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

When I started to work in Hollywood at a fairly low level delivering scripts around town, listening to AM talk radio, I at first listened to it as a novelty.

Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.

My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my grandmother and I talked so much.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share.

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12.

My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

There is something joyous about not talking.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.