“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“If you just listen, you never learn. If you just learn, you never do. And the way to DO is to experiment and see what sets your heart on fire.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, and accrue what I hear into myself.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com
“When you listen to the voice, listen to it impartially. This is to say, do not judge.”— Eckhart Tolle, twitter.com