Listening Quotes - Page 27

Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.

What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I grew up listening to old soul

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.