Listening Quotes · Page 172

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

— Robert Breault

I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same…

— MC Lyte

Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

— Bill Cosby

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building,…

— Margaret Hamburg

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on…

— Will Ferrell

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

— Jorja Smith

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

— Alan Rickman

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

— Clint Smith

We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to…

— Coretta Scott King

Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness…

— Marvin J. Ashton

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

— Brittany Murphy

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of…

— Richard Branson

I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really…

— Pantha du Prince

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I…

— Max Richter

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening…

— Kevin Richardson

Sometimes, What A Person Needs Is Not A Brilliant Mind That Speaks But A Patient Heart That Listens...

— Pacifiersucker

I grew up listening to dappan koothu songs and loved the fun party vibes they gave.

— Vidya Vox

When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I was singing 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor,' and…

— Kate Nash

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

— John Assaraf

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the…

— George Orwell

“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep…

— Walter Benjamin

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our…

— Bernard Lown

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

— Anthony Trollope

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

— Alice Walker

Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.

— Tiny Tim