Jojo Moyes Quotes

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Everybody hears, but few listen.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

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

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

Listen if you want to be heard

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.