Listening Quotes · Page 171

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

— Idries Shah

We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children,…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

I just always assume no one is listening.

— Elvis Duran

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm…

— Emily Blunt

We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A…

— Tara Moss

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,…

— C. S. Lewis

Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.

— Rumi

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you…

— K. D. Lang

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want.…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

— Terry Pratchett

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

— Michael Dirda

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

— Christina Aguilera

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ.…

— Harvey Mackay

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

— Wayne Dyer

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

— Anne-Marie

People in Seattle - and I'm speaking from experience - are indoors more. It used to just rain a ton, and as…

— Duff McKagan

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

— Susan Cain

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in…

— Mother Teresa

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn…

— Jesse Ventura

This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and…

— Jim Harrison

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

— Elizabeth Dole

It's true that we come from the electronic scene in the '90s, but maybe just two years before that we were not…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

“She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of…

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo