Listening Quotes - Page 33

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would be if they were heard by the ear. It is impossible not to understand them, whatever resistance we may offer... There is no escape, for in spite of ourselves we must listen...

I am where a great many voters are, which is that I am listening and watching and coming to a decision.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A lot of change is possible by just acknowledging unconscious bias - that exhaustively documented but unpleasant reality many would rather ignore - and listening with less bias and acting on what we then learn.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.