We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners. — Donnie Simpson Copy Share Image
We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us. — Lester Bowie Copy Share Image
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
There are two types of listeners: 1) The people who care and wanna help. 2) And the nosey bitches. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It takes patience to listen. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.” — Harmon okinyo Copy Share Image
The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of… — Steven Sample Copy Share Image
When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If anything, I feel that the current generation of listeners of heavy music are progressing a bit passed their gateway bands and… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
Just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are grown M&M's are yellow And the light bulbs around… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep… — Greg James Copy Share Image
I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
