Listen Attentively Quotes

#1. I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

Tom Harrell

#2. Wouldn't you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively? Yes? All right. Here it is: "I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.

Dale Carnegie

#3. One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

Pema Chodron

#4. to listen attentively to every word when someone is speaking of something which interests you not at all is the triumph of will over desire

E.S. Purnell

#5. Saints, such as me, ought always to listen attentively to the prayers of poor, dirty, ragged men, such as you. No matter how offensively those prayers are phased.

Susanna Clarke

#6. Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being!

Assegid Habtewold

#7. Isaac F. Marcosson, a journalist who interviewed hundreds of celebrities, declared that many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don't listen attentively.

Dale Carnegie

#8. Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

Bob Anderson

#9. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

Anais Nin

#10. Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going to jump to him, like she did from the back of the sofa. She was going to jump, confident that he'd catch her, like he always did.

Sharon Bolton

#11. And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn't help herself, and because he wouldn't have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

Paullina Simons

#12. I've lived on borrowed time. More than any man deserves. I've seen wonders beyond my wildest imaginings. Through these centuries, against the impossibility that we'd find each other, we did. And I am most grateful for it.

Sleepy Hollow Press

#13. To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.

Rawi Hage

#15. David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.

Vitali Klitschko

#16. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.

David Nicholls

#17. The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

Charles McGrath

#18. The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Ban Ki-moon

#19. I would prefer death to this cage, to the twisted obsession of a mad boy king.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Paul Tournier

#21. The genius is in making the complex simple.

Albert Einstein

#22. Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

Jay Leno

#23. It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

Martin Esslin