Speaker And Listener Quotes

#1. Unlike her judges, she suggested that words do not have set meanings, that there is a gap between speaker and listener, and that human understanding always "falls short of absolute truth.

Eve LaPlante

#2. An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

B.F. Skinner

#3. The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

Theodor Adorno

#4. What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

Timothy Snyder

#5. Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. The Doppler Effect of Communication": There is always distortion between what a speaker says and what a listener wants it to mean. "The

Amy Tan

#7. A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Jennifer Lynch

#9. Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#10. He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

#12. When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.

Rashida Jones

#13. It always takes two. There's the speaker and the listener, you and the audience. You've worked long hours and it comes down to that moment, that performance. The goal isn't just to improve yourself, but to transport people.

Gillian Murphy

#14. The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through a microphone, amplifiers, transmission lines, radio transmitter, receiving set, and, finally, the loud speaker apparatus itself.

Raymond Scott

#15. It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

Sonia Sotomayor

#17. A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

John Powell

#19. Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Sue Thoele

#20. I've tucked those negative thoughts in a drawer, and for the most part, though I know the drawer still exists, it never gets opened.

K. Martin Beckner

#21. The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.

Langston Hughes

#22. Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Marshall McLuhan

#23. What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg