Listening Quotes · Page 38

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

— Susan Cain

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

— Walter Matthau

“Red calls out to the rose, but I’m the only one who’s listening.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Anne-Marie

Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits…

— Wallace Stevens

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

— Ruggiero Ricci

Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until…

— Raymond Kethledge

There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to…

— Cassadee Pope

I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort…

— Bo Burnham

when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading.…

— Susan L. Taylor

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to…

— Brian Eno

Between every record, we all split off in our own world and we all end up listening to usually pretty different music…

— Ben Gibbard

I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make…

— Bill Gaither

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now…

— Annie Dillard

The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an…

— Greg Graffin

What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an…

— Andrea Gibson

I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You…

— Joanna Coles

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play.…

— Miroslav Vitous

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly…

— Alexander McCall Smith

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to…

— Ludovico Einaudi

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Bernard Lown

Listening to your favorite song before bed can help you sleep better, wake up easier and enhance your mood for the upcoming…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

— Bernard Baruch

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

— Anonymous

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty…

— Kate Seredy

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

— Stephen Levine

God if youre listening to me your leaving some other poor bastard alone that could really use your help.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say

— Anonymous

“The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to…

— Clairo

Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.

— Cory Trepanier

Sometimes we don't need advice, sometimes we just need somebody to listen.

— Nishan Panwar

Have u ever felt that God isn't listening when you're talking to Him? Well, He is. He's just planning something better to…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

— Robin S. Sharma

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

— Nick Frost

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

— Rajneesh