Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of…

— Kelley York

“So much talking makes it hard to listen.”

— Karen Rivers

“It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.”

— Lisa Unger

“Sometimes we hear more of what a person is saying when we listen to what they’re not saying.”

— Anthony P. Mauro, Sr

“He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking…

— Jody Gehrman

“Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.”

— Moazzam Shaikh

“He has no idea why his words are so crushing because I've hidden the most important part of me from him.”

— Kate Sterritt

“Sometimes I think he’s just chosen to keep quiet because it is so much more interesting sometimes to just listen to people instead of…

— Jennifer Lynch

“we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us...”

— Alina Radoi

“We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me…

— Denise Grover Swank

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. … The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“And about a thousand other things," he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the sense that…

— Lauren DeStefano