listening

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Listening isn't just about being quiet. It's about listening to what is said, what is unsaid, and what is meant with your eyes, ears and heart.

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.

Listening isn't just about being quiet.It's about listening to -What is Said,What is Unsaid,and What is meantWith your Eyes, Ears and Heart

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you__ have preferred to talk.

A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. it's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You__e so still. It__ like, you__l just hear it._ He smiled wryly. __ can__ even hear what I__ thinking most of the time,_ he said, his brow wrinkling. __y brain__ noisy.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

I never miss a good chance to shut up

His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Don__ ask a yes or no question unless the person being asked can say no without hesitation.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you__e trying to listen to.

Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations.""How do you know? -- how can you guess all this, sir?""I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary.