Top 100 Quotes About The Listening
#1. To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
Brad Listi
#3. 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
#4. He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.
Lisa Genova
#5. Now mayhap you quit givin Terrible the fuckin slurpy-eyes an give Bump the listening, yay? Thinkin you can? Gots some fuckin chattering wants doin, needs you fuckin head on straight up.
Stacia Kane
#6. No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
Henry Taylor
#7. Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Anni Albers
#8. I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.
Trent Reznor
#9. I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.
Margarita Engle
#11. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
James Weldon Johnson
#12. The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.
William Somervile
#13. The listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.
William Faulkner
#14. there's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening. My
Caleb Carr
#15. Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume
this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience ...
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#16. I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
Mark Twain
#17. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
Joseph Addison
#18. In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
John Green
#19. In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon,
Catching the lilt of every easy tune;
But when the day departs he sings of love,
His own wild song beneath the listening moon.
Henry Van Dyke
#21. If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you'd have to bring into the listening.
Derek Bailey
#23. The secret of chanting is in the listening, not the voicing, and a circuit is completed between mind and heart that opens intuition and gently increases the volume of the still small voice within.
Stephen Levine
#24. No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
John Vance Cheney
#25. I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening ... that's the art.
Bette Midler
#26. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
Terry Tempest Williams
#27. The better the questions, the more attentive the listening, the richer the reflection, the better the solutions, and the deeper is the learning.
Julia Sloan
#28. It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.
Todd Rundgren
#29. Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
Edmund Sears
#30. When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
Evan Parker
#31. If you become a singing bird, I will be the listening sky so that I will never miss your song.
Debasish Mridha
#32. No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.
Lorenzo Ferrero
#33. Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.
Brian Tracy
#34. 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
#35. Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.
John Gardner
#36. When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
John Scofield
#37. When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
Mark Nepo
#38. True listening and understanding occurs only when the other person understands that you understand.
Henry Cloud
#39. Forget "minimum viable products" - ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others' successes.
Peter Thiel
#40. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
William H. Whyte
#41. I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Charles Hanson Towne
#42. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.
Robert Kiyosaki
#44. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.
Toni Packer
#46. It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
A.A. Milne
#47. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
Bill Walsh
#48. I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
#49. The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.
Aristotle.
#50. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
Alan Alda
#51. 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
#52. If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
Bill Laswell
#53. See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.
Kim Coates
#54. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.
Tara Brach
#55. 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
#56. Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
Eckhart Tolle
#57. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#58. So, do you have to send The Piano Man the secret code word to come down?"
"Did you just call Josh The Piano Man?"
"Well, I thought we should have a code name for him in case anyone's listening when we talk about you, and your mom said he plays the piano.
Jennifer Comeaux
#59. The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.
Christopher Jones
#60. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#61. 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
#62. I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
James Blake
#63. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
#64. A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#65. Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
Lech Walesa
#66. You know when you're by yourself you can say the most outrageous things. No one is listening.
Art Hochberg
#67. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
Ian Axel
#68. I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.
David Rodigan
#69. The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
T. J. Miller
#70. I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
Mark Nepo
#71. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
Steve Goodier
#72. My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
Bryan Greenberg
#73. Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.
Neil Gaiman
#74. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.
William Boyd
#75. And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it, listening to the lovely, liquid opening of the vowel, and the v that close and contained it.
Zibby Oneal
#76. Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.
Donnie Simpson
#77. Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm still going To KICK Sensui's sorry butt! -Yusuke
Yoshihiro Togashi
#78. I lay curled in a fetal position one night, listening to my wife's voice. In the evenings, she just talked, speaking light into my darkness by reading verses to me. I needed a touchstone and she knew it, so she kept gently pointing toward Christ. She set aside her fears to speak into my own.
Ben Palpant
#79. As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
Alan Green
#80. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.
Gregory Rabassa
#81. There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations.
Suzanne Rindell
#82. Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree
Sunday Adelaja
#83. Listening doesn't mean you agree but it will be the quickest road to conflict resolution. EL
Evinda Lepins
#84. Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.
Anne Graham Lotz
#85. Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
Bob Dylan
#86. We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.
Max De Pree
#87. The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.
Adriana Trigiani
#88. Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to.
A.J. Sheppard
#89. For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.
Stefan Zweig
#90. Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything about us they assume it's because they're drunk. I've
Helen Oyeyemi
#91. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.
C.M. Stunich
#92. I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
Tony Abbott
#93. You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey ... God will take advantage of that if you let Him
Henry B. Eyring
#94. A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.
Jean Vanier
#95. I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.
Tinchy Stryder
#96. Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.
Danielle LaPorte
#97. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Richard Paul Evans
#98. DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.
TyDi
#99. One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.
Ed Droste
#100. As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
Preston Manning
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