Listening Intently Quotes

#1. I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

Vanessa Mae

#2. Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#3. But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

Janet Reno

#4. The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

Robyn Hitchcock

#6. If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Oren Lyons

#7. Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

Orlando Figes

#8. When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles De Lint

#9. For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

Steve Rasnic Tem

#10. Both thought and the senses were fine things, behind both of them lay hidden the last meaning; it was worth while listening to them both, to play with both, neither to despise nor overrate either of them, but to listen intently to both voices.

Hermann Hesse

#11. Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

Robin Sharma

#12. Many of the innovative companies got their best product ideas from customers. That comes from listening, intently and regularly.

Tom Peters

#13. His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.

Sue Woolfe

#14. Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

Maximillian Degenerez

#15. I have a life, goddamit. One life. I've seen too many people give theirs up, to drugs or suicide or even depression ... fuck, even just lazinesss. I've seen lives wasted.
I'll be damned if I'm going to waste mine.

Christopher Golden

#16. People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Brian Koslow

#17. A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

Haniel Long

#18. Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

#19. After listening intently for a few seconds, he turned to me. "North Vietnam?" He shook his head derisively. "Very, very bad." He listened some more, then denounced Brezhnev.

Rob Reid

#20. I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

Stephanie Beacham

#21. It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

Alexander Crummell

#22. Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Morrissey

#24. You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.

Eric Ludy

#25. Mack was lying in the darkness, listening intently. "Aren't you talking about a real indwelling, not just some positional, theological thing?" "Of course," answered Jesus, his voice strong and sure.

William Paul Young

#26. I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

Charlie Sheen

#27. There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

Sean Brady

#28. Good listening works magic ... Listen intently intentionally!

Frank Bettger

#29. Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?" The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, "But where is any mountain? I

Kahlil Gibran

#30. That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.

Cecelia Ahern