Talking And Listening Quotes

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Listen more than you talk.

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

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

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

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

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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

I never miss a good chance to shut up

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.