Communication Quote by David Byrne Download Open image “Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.” — David Byrne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Education People School Training
Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand. — Sheldon Jackson Copy Share Image
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
School is designed to teach you how to respond and listen to authority figures in the event of an emergency. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. — William Pollard Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions.… — Chungliang Al Huang Copy Share Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Human beings have the incredible capacity for denial. I think they do. And although it's really hard to believe, I have my doubts. But my feeling is that first they have to convince themselves. First they have to justify this stuff to themselves and if they can do that, even for just the moment that it's coming out their mouth,… — David Byrne Copy Share
I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“All that interconnectedness that facilitated much of the explosion of megawealth over the last decade also facilitated the interpenetration of everything, so no one… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are. Not that the Euro and British press aren't biased as well--they certainly are--but living in the United States we are led to believe, and are constantly reminded, that our press is fair and free of bias.… — David Byrne Copy Share
When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous,… — David Byrne Copy Share
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
