David Fincher Quotes

He listens well who takes notes.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

How can a man with such huge ears hear so very little?

I write what I hear.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

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

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

Listening speaks louder than words.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

I was taught in radio: if somebody is talking, then you don't talk over them.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

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.

You can not hear what you do not understand.