Listening Quotes · Page 3

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my…

— Amy Winehouse

I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs - just going through the woods and being part of it. You…

— Boo Weekley

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

— Gayle King

It's always a consistent approach of trying to get better, listening and learning from everybody else, and then that will help you…

— Sean McVay

Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult…

— Tom Vilsack

Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

— Aubrie Sellers

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that…

— Umberto Eco

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen…

— Mark McGrath

To become an an effective listener, you need to learn the power of silence. Silence gives you the opportunity to think about…

— Anonymous

“His practice was to listen noncommittally with half his mind, while he allowed the other half to lose itself in utterly unrelated…

— Yasushi Inoue

Listening to the soundtrack of other people's lives and learning from them is a pretty perfect way to spend hours that are…

— Angela Scanlon

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything…

— David Duchovny

When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling…

— Alice Cooper

It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

— Mo Ibrahim

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them…

— Tom Waits

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

— Tim Gunn

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

— Courtney Barnett

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

— Anonymous

We'd like to think our consumers are listening. But in reality, the milder weather the last few days probably has a lot…

— Kevin Cook

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

— David Sedaris

I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

— Lisa O'Hare

[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there…

— Gillian Tett

As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied?…

— Lee Hirsch

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me.…

— Graham Coxon

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves…

— Matisyahu