Inattentive Listening Quotes

I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.

My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.