Top 35 The Art Of Listening Quotes
#1. The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.
Wu Han
#2. My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.
James Comey
#3. The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
Sydney J. Harris
#4. You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
#5. Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.
Erskine Caldwell
#6. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
William Hazlitt
#7. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
Mark Nepo
#9. I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
Steve Vai
#10. To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
Tom Peters
#11. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney
#12. No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
John Vance Cheney
#13. Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family ... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.
Nhat Hanh
#14. The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
Akiane Kramarik
#15. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
David Whyte
#16. Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time ... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.
Guido Molinari
#17. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
#18. I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.
Andy Warhol
#19. Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.
Steve Berry
#20. In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.
Bernard Lown
#21. In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness.
Jack Kornfield
#22. If you don't listen to the question entirely, then
you are going to revise your answers frequently.
Toba Beta
#23. The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
Hayley Atwell
#24. NEXT LIFE. My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of Slow Information. I will also teach letter writing, listening, miniature portrait painting, and the art of doing one thing at a time.
Vivian Swift
#25. I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
Edgar Allan Poe
#26. THE REAL ART OF LISTENING IS RESPONDING TO A PERSON'S FEELINGS, NOT HIS/HER WORDS
Dr. Ingrid Schweiger
#27. Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.
Jackson Beck
#28. As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.
Dan Groat
#29. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Susan Jacoby
#30. Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
Henning Mankell
#31. Solutions have a voice - the art is knowing how to listen
Gino Norris
#32. You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
Keith Richards
#33. 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
#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
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