Listening Quotes · Page 33

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good…

— Felicity Jones

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music…

— Florence Welch

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

— Anonymous

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided?”

— Sarah Dessen

“Listening well means being willing to own your stuff and to confront some of what might not be pretty.”

— Patty Prasada-Rao

Once upon a time, I loved Carole King. I grew up listening to her.

— Brett Cooper

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

— Bjork

One of the classic mistakes is we think if we get closer to someone by just listening to all of their relationship…

— Matthew Hussey

To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and…

— Robyn

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this…

— Jaimoe

In the beginning, if you look at those early label albums of the Chicks, we didn't write all that much. We had…

— Martie Maguire

My song 'Nevermind' was named after Nirvana's album, so when I had to choose a cover for my Spotify Singles session, choosing…

— Dennis Lloyd

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim,…

— Saweetie

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

— John C. Maxwell

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So…

— George Arthur Buttrick

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning…

— Bill Gates

My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,…

— Les Standiford

Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids -…

— Michael Rapaport

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the…

— Peter Senge

His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding…

— Christer Kihlman

It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live…

— Loren Eiseley

Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right…

— Richelle Mead

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

— Eric B

“Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.”

— Rebecca Z. Shafir

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the…

— Daniel Barenboim

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

— Joseph Addison

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

— Stephanie Perkins

What puts me in the perspective of the power of a song is listening to it at full volume.

— Lights

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

— Ray Still

“It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find…

— Mark Nepo

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

— Stephen Covey

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

— Walter Scott

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

— James Altucher

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on…

— Umair Haque

“Sex is ten percent skill and ninety percent listening. Who’s a better listener than you?”

— Sarina Bowen

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

— Jasper Fforde

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

— Tom Peters

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

— Adrian Younge