Top 100 Quotes About Listening
#1. When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.
Gary Chapman
#3. I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A. J. McLean
#4. I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
Action Bronson
#5. You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly.
Frederick Lenz
#6. I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.
Michael Thomas Ford
#7. We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.
Janet Mock
#8. I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.
Julia Cameron
#9. When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
Gerry Mulligan
#10. Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?
Patricia Briggs
#11. Sitting in the empty classroom and listening to the faraway sounds of noisy students in the cafeteria, I was reminded of feeling sick in class and being sent to the school nurse. The nurse's office had that same muffled sense of distance, like a satellite to the loud planet that was the school.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.
Doug Morris
#13. In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices.
Douglas Brinkley
#14. The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.
Max Weiss
#15. I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music ... healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!
Judy Collins
#16. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#17. Playing big doesn't come from working more, pushing harder, or finding confidence. It comes from listening to the most powerful and secure part of you, not the voice of self-doubt.
Tara Mohr
#18. Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
Eric Clapton
#19. There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson
#20. Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.
Carlo Rovelli
#21. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.
Jonathan Groff
#22. We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Max Beerbohm
#23. I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.
Paris Hilton
#24. I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.
Juicy J
#25. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Charles Dickens
#26. You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
S.M. Stirling
#27. I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.
Matisyahu
#28. I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
Bob Galvin
#29. Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
Linus Torvalds
#30. How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.
Tony Robbins
#31. I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.
Jimmy Cliff
#32. Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
Naveen Jain
#33. Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.
Rebecca Stead
#34. Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes ... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber ... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
#35. Westcott lived in the most perilous zone between waking and night - the shadowlands of watching and waiting, questioning and listening. He lived in the glade of remembrance." - from Who Has Known Heights
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#36. I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#37. Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, couting prayer beads no more scared than simply breathing, religious robed no more spiritual than work clothes.
Lao-Tzu
#38. I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Mayer Hawthorne
#39. When people say we don't want to reinvent the wheel, I stop listening: I want to reinvent the wheel!
D. Ed Hoggatt
#40. John lowered the book he'd been reading.
"Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?"
"I know you were listening, " I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. "You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.
Meg Cabot
#41. So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.
George Gamow
#42. Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone
#43. During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#44. I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.
Michel Faber
#45. A penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening
The Band Perry
#46. When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
Natalia Kills
#47. No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
John Cage
#48. I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
Orson Welles
#49. People that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as
Lewis Carroll
#50. I launched into my speech, it took me a few seconds to realize that the only one listening was max (the dog) but at least he had the good manners to stop chewing the toilet brush and pay attention.
Sammi Carter
#51. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#52. I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.
Harry Redknapp
#53. Listening is not waiting for your turn to talk
S.E. Sever
#54. He had spent hours listening to how the pull of certain people would supposedly make the world stop. Now he knew it was wrong. The word hadn't stopped. The world had just started to churn and breathe and live.
Roshani Chokshi
#55. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
Tahir Shah
#56. Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#57. My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.
CeeLo Green
#58. Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.
Judith Viorst
#59. I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
David Lynch
#60. I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.
Hope Partlow
#61. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. Good listening works magic ... Listen intently intentionally!
Frank Bettger
#63. I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.
Brian Michael Bendis
#64. Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
Brian Tracy
#66. I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.
Tom Jones
#67. My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.
Kevin Bacon
#68. Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
Sonia Sotomayor
#69. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Joe Shuster
#70. The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#71. Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do. -Joseph Dahr.
Ray Anyasi
#72. Every song I am listening to
It has an imaginary story about you.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#74. I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan
#75. There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just ... I love that.
Sam Heughan
#76. The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'
Peter Yarrow
#77. Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.
John Lennon
#78. You stuck listening devices all over the dacha
even in the bathroom. You spend the people's money to eavesdrop on my farts.
Nikita Khrushchev
#79. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush
#80. If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
Travis Barker
#81. Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
M. Scott Peck
#82. I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
J.D. Salinger
#83. I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.
Jane Hirshfield
#84. The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
Ben Gibbard
#85. I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down: how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger
Mary Karr
#86. Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#87. We're not looking for any particular experience, for the breath or the body to be a special way. Rather, we're simply listening to, being aware of, and receiving the contact of whatever presents itself.
Anonymous
#88. Music's the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There's always music. If I'm not playing it, I'm listening to it. With my writing ... sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I'm working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.
Charles De Lint
#89. When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.
Erik Weihenmayer
#90. What's the use of saying anything, when you're not even listening? - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#91. Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
Tena Desae
#92. I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
Chuck Klosterman
#93. As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#94. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Sondre Lerche
#96. Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.
Kevin Shields
#97. A Warrior of the Light does not waste his time listening to provocations; he has a destiny to fulfill.
Paulo Coelho
#98. Never stop dreaming. Never stop listening to the music that is inside of you.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Everything was so fresh and unique to us - it was a whole new world of music. Michael Jackson was so fresh, you know? We could approach it with such fresh ears, which wouldn't be possible if we had been listening to it when we were younger.
Luka Sulic
#100. I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.
Margaret Cho
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