silent learning Quotes

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

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

Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.