Sherwood Anderson Quotes

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

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

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

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

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

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

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

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.