Listening Quotes - Page 22

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."

It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

All night, my face next to your mouth, I hold my breath, listening to yours.