Listening Quotes - Page 5

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how.

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

The universe is listening, be careful what you say in it.

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.

There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.