Top 100 Listening To People Quotes
#1. I just love going out and listening to people. People can teach us a lot.
Paul Blackthorne
#2. You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
Stanley Crouch
#3. If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.
Martin McDonagh
#4. I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
Audre Lorde
#5. Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes.
John Green
#6. I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.
Chris Hardwick
#7. One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.
Poe Ballantine
#8. If there's one thing I learned from the playlist, it's how important listening to people can be. I
Michelle Falkoff
#9. I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.
Nick Hornby
#10. I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider
#11. I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#12. Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.
Robert Tisserand
#13. I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do
Joan Smith
#14. Listening to people keeps them entertained.
Mason Cooley
#15. There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view
Richard Branson
#16. I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
Malachy McCourt
#17. The only thing more boring than watching golf, is listening to people talk about the golf they are watching.
T.C. Slonaker
#18. Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other
Hank Green
#19. I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.
Antonya Nelson
#20. I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.
Curt Siodmak
#21. The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach
#22. People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.
Andre Dubus
#23. The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque
#24. I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
Anthony Mackie
#25. I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
Bill Joy
#26. I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.
Jack White
#27. Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
Ofra Strauss
#28. I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.
Amy Bloom
#29. The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me
Fabio Capello
#31. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
Craig Newmark
#32. I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.
Gayle King
#33. If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
Warren Gatland
#34. Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', I CAN handle the truth.
Michael J. Fox
#35. (after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles.
Joel Osteen
#36. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
Elizabeth Dole
#37. One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people
Sunday Adelaja
#38. What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
Elizabeth Dole
#40. I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.
Gloria Steinem
#41. There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
Craig Newmark
#42. Stop listening to people.
They don't live your life.
Stop judging people. You
don't live their lives.
Semanyenzi Richard
#43. We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.
Hillary Clinton
#44. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.
Gloria Steinem
#45. I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
Gayl Jones
#46. Stop listening to people who don't experience happiness, success, peace, and fulfillment themselves. Don't let them tell you what is right and wrong!
Maddy Malhotra
#47. I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Christopher Walken
#48. One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.
Newt Gingrich
#49. You learn a lot when listening to people. Always keep your ears open. You never know the impact they will have on your life.
David Mezzapelle
#50. Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane.
Louise Penny
#51. It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
Robin Epstein
#52. Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life.
Kristen Ashley
#53. I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race.
Pete Seeger
#54. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
Rajneesh
#55. Fascinating, said the Patrician, and went back to not listening to Dibbler. He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him.
Terry Pratchett
#56. I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
James Blake
#57. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
Sarah McLachlan
#58. Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.
Neil Gaiman
#59. People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.
Paulo Coelho
#60. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap
#61. You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres,
Dick Allen
#62. Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand
#63. Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.
Joshua Harris
#64. People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
Janelle Monae
#65. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.
Adrianne Brooks
#66. I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
Action Bronson
#67. I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.
John Dufresne
#68. We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.
Gilbert Hernandez
#69. The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.
Flemming Rose
#70. I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
Mick Taylor
#71. You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -Q
John Green
#72. The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
Joseph Campbell
#73. I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me when I was a kid and made me feel less invisible, and I wanted kids or whoever is listening to my music not to feel so voiceless.
Emeli Sande
#74. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
Maya Angelou
#75. Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
Martin Luther
#76. Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.
Claudio Abbado
#78. There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
Bill De Blasio
#79. The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen
#80. The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
#81. It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
Ethan Zuckerman
#82. I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#83. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
Danger Mouse
#84. A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it.
Alex Scally
#85. At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.
Gautama Buddha
#86. God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.
Paulo Coelho
#87. I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying.
Neil Young
#88. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Margaret Halsey
#89. Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
Stephen Covey
#91. People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
Idina Menzel
#92. Most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
Haruki Murakami
#93. People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say."
Someone said, "I fucking told you
Warren Ellis
#94. Unfortunately, many people are not really listening to you, but are calculating a reply that outshines you.
Charles F. Glassman
#95. If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a listening perspective, there's just something in their playing that I'm inspired by.
Sam Amidon
#96. Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
Philip Selway
#97. Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
A.S. Byatt
#98. Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.
Ann Coulter
#99. Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people's intentions,
We don't listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.
Mouloud Benzadi
#100. I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.
Billy Collins
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