Quotes About Hearing But Not Listening

#1. And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Daniel Barenboim

#2. When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

Dave Soldier

#3. Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

Gary Rohrmayer

#4. Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.

Ann Coulter

#5. Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

David Sills

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

Richard Branson

#7. It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. 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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#10. You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

Andrew Schneider

#11. If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

#12. Being unconscious is like hearing without listening and seeing without a vision

Thabiso Monkoe

#13. My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

Sarah Silverman

#14. I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

Jeff Daniels

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#16. Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.

T.F. Hodge

#18. The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities ... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Andre Gide

#19. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.

Jean Leclercq

#20. Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

Sumangali Morhall

#21. Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.

Philip B. Crosby

#22. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Ian Axel

#23. There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

Sarah McLachlan

#25. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

#26. Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you've been listening to - all the pieces of music you've ever heard.

Brian Eno

#27. Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.

Toni Sorenson

#28. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks

#29. I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Rebecca Romijn

#30. The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

David Hewson

#31. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#32. You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

Keith Richards

#33. Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.

Michael Shurtleff

#34. Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.

Javier Marias

#35. You're going to listen to me, and for once you're going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren't there.

Genna Rulon

#36. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

David Patterson

#37. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Dan Groat

#38. What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?

Joyce Rachelle

#39. I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

James Taylor

#40. The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.

Ester Dean