Quotes About Listening To Each Other

#1. There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

Jennifer Lawrence

#2. Make time every day to share with each other some of the events of the day. When you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you can end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

Gary Chapman

#3. The risk is, as ever, that the hyperbole of IPL will simply smother the cricket; perhaps the members of the IPL's cheer squad should stop listening to each other and start listening to themselves.

Gideon Haigh

#4. I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Michael Bennett

#5. They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

Michael Chabon

#6. Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.

Jay Woodman

#7. They lay there like that, in a different kind of silence now, watching the lake and the stars, listening to the night, each basking in the warmth of the other.

Kimberly Derting

#8. Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.

Marvin J. Ashton

#9. I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to impress each other with, which eventually turned into listening to the music we actually liked.

Rob Sheffield

#10. Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?

Mark Nepo

#11. There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

Katherine Hannigan

#12. Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other ... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

Mark Nepo

#13. It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Fred Ward

#14. Anyhow, she thought, they are aware of each other; they live in each other; what else is love, she asked, listening to their laughter.

Virginia Woolf

#15. We stood there, squeezing each other's hands as though trying to press through the flesh to the bones and then beyond. She kissed my cheek and neck, and I felt the joy of omnipresent love
everything around me speaking about me with affection, and Mary was listening.

Aleksandar Hemon

#16. Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Alex Noble

#17. Tango is a truth drug. It lays bare your problems and your complexes, but also the strengths you hide from others so as not to vex them. It shows what a couple can be for each other, how they can listen to each other. People who only want to listen to themselves will hate tango.

Nina George

#18. Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.

Danah Boyd

#19. When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.

Gary Chapman

#20. I took Miss Stanwyck home and had a great time listening to her dish the party and everyone there. We went in for a nightcap, and I ended up spending the night. We enjoyed each other's company to the fullest.

Farley Granger

#21. Like most so-called debates between liberals and conservatives, they weren't interested in listening or responding to each other. They were solely concerned with making sound bites.

Bob Frey

#22. We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.

Thomas Gordon

#23. Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

Wendy Davis

#24. They went to the column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts.

Jeff Zentner

#25. I caressed Cristina in the dark, listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to each other and to nobody else.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#26. If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
to help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
than 2 stop and c what makes u cry

Tupac Shakur

#27. Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Hank Green

#28. One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

Herbie Hancock

#29. I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel

Henry Rollins

#30. It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.

Greg Egan

#31. The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

Joan D. Chittister

#32. Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

Madeleine L'Engle

#33. The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.

Betty White

#34. Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

Mark Nepo

#35. We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things
led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.

Alyson Noel