David James Duncan Quotes

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

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

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

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

People aren't hearing all the music.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

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

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

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

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

You can observe a lot by watching.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

She was a genius at listening.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

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