The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it… — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have… — Robin Farina Copy Share Image
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I… — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener.… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
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