T. S. Eliot Quotes

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

You can learn so much just by observing.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.