#listening

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#hearing #inattention #listening #senses #first-sentence

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#listening #men #silent #think #women

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

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

#listen #listening #silent #talking #inspirational

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe. ↗

— Jon Brion

#fact #hard #i #i do #like

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. ↗

— Robert Palmer

#comes #favourite #growing #growing up #i

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#back #britain #forward #lean #like

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗

— Brené Brown

#listening #shame #speaking #courage

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#car #cds #everybody #got #i