David Levithan Quotes

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

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

In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

Young and older people need to learn relationships take time and effort.

I think it is important to give your partner enough time in a relationship.

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Do you want me to answer that?

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

We won't know for a few years.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.