Listening Quotes · Page 43

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

— Ami Bera

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

— Buddy Guy

I have many vivid memories of listening to the folk songs in my village.

— Devi Sri Prasad

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

— Henry Taylor

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

— Anonymous

“Listening is more important than talking. If that was not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one…

— Anonymous

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

— Brett Ratner

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

— Mandy Harvey

I had a brief conversation with Tracy when I was doing 'Tightrope.' He said he and Kate Hepburn always watched the show…

— Mike Connors

I'll always remember listening to Mark Radcliffe playing Sonic Youth. I felt this instant connection, it offered me a peak behind a…

— Edith Bowman

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to…

— Mark Wahlberg

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's…

— El-P

My mum thinks she knows her football. She'll certainly tell me when I'm not doing something right. At other times, she'll say…

— Raheem Sterling

The Internet is like walking into a room in your house you never knew was there and, like, it's full of thousands…

— Tricky

When I found out that I was going to be singing with Jennifer Holliday, I literally freaked out! I grew up listening…

— Jessica Sanchez

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and…

— Damian Lillard

The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.…

— Nick Lowe

I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go…

— William Fitzsimmons

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really…

— David Gilmour

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare -…

— Jessye Norman

I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening…

— Hal Ketchum

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup,…

— John Oliver

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and…

— Bo Sanchez

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.…

— Adyashanti

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

— John Vance Cheney

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

— Edith Sitwell

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

— Saul Gorn

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

— Thomas Hood

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

— William J. Clinton

I want someone that makes me think about them more than I think about myself.

— David DtK Smith

I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.

— Myles Kennedy

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

— Margaret Cho

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

— Amy Poehler

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”

— Andre Gide

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

— Roger Stone

You can transform somebody just by telling them, 'I'm listening.'

— Paterson Joseph

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

— Avicii

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

— John Assaraf

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…

— Ernest Gaines

“Listen so softly to the gentle winds gliding through joyful dancing trees and know Oneness”

— Leland Lewis