Listening Quotes - Page 12

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

I know what I'm the best at. But I still want to do something different because it's fun for me. Even though I'm really good at something, it's boring for me to do the same thing every time and it'll be boring for people who are listening to me.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy.

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don`t choose choicelessness! Otherwise, listening to me or to Sosan or Krishnamurti you will become enchanted by the word `choicelessness.` Your mind will say, "This is very good. Then ecstasy is possible and much bliss will happen to you if you become choicelessness. Then the door of the mysteries of life will be opened." The mind feels greedy. The mind says, "Okay, so I will choose choicelessness." The door is closed, only the label is changed, but you have fallen a victim of the old trick.

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.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.