Listening Quotes - Page 18

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.