Listening Quotes - Page 16

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

Listening is the new prospecting.

(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.

One who cares is one who listens.

That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.

We shouldn’t,” protested Isabelle. “The Clave has a plan.” “The Clave has the collective intelligence of a pineapple,” said Jace. Alec blinked up at them. “Jace is right.” Isabelle turned on her brother. “What do you know? You weren’t even paying attention.” “I was,” Alec said, injured. “I said Jace was right.” “Yeah, but there’s like a 90% chance of me being right most of the time, so that’s not proof you were listening,” said Jace. “That’s just a good guess.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

To be honest, I know this probably sounds corny or whatever because I'm a musician, but listening to music really helps me relax and calm down - listening to my favorite songs. Also, laughing and hanging out with my friends.

It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn