Listening Quotes - Page 23

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!