#listening

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#always #any #bad #big #family

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. ↗

— David Amram

#bach #being #chorale #four #going

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. ↗

— Bobby Hatfield

#come #gonna #just #listening #lot

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#broadcast #cigarette #crushing #like #listening

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The Chiense say that we live in the world of ten thousand things. Each of the ten thousand things cries out to us precisely nothing. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#listening #nature #life

The only problem is the heart is quiet. It takes a very special kind of person to hear what the heart says. Most can't hear it at all and they have to guess. There are a lot of people walking around just guessing. ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#listening #love #love

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. ↗

— David Augsburger

#love

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#best #differences #learn #listen #listening

I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday. ↗

— Maria Bello

#going #i #i remember #listening #maniac

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best #best way #crowd #did #education