Listening Quotes · Page 46

“I do care, goddamn it! Have you been listening? I. Love. You. I never really knew what that meant until you.”

— Shayla Black

“Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways i know of to honor that person.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

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

— Alan Rickman

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

— George MacDonald

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

— May Sarton

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

— Nimrat Kaur

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

— C. S. Lewis

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

— Rumi

I like hip-hop personally. It is a genre I am very attached to and have been listening to all my life. But…

— Zoya Akhtar

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening…

— Lauren Oliver

Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to…

— Jack Welch

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do…

— Austin Aries

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as…

— Aldous Huxley

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening…

— Clint Eastwood

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to…

— Jill Scott

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become…

— Bruce Lee

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite…

— Robert Walser

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of…

— Brad Warner

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I…

— David Slade

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and…

— Don Ameche

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don’t listen at all. They…

— Tedd Tripp

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've…

— Paul Ryan

I'm telling y'all Drake is that dude! Definitely listening to Quavo too!

— Zion Williamson

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.

— Troy Dumais

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

— Chino Moreno

On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.

— W. S. Gilbert

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

— Thomas Hardy

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

— A. S. Byatt

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

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.’ I”

— Robin Hobb

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

— Katori Hall

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

— Jacob Bannon

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I…

— Jose James

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

— Robbie Williams

“You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.”

— Randy Ingermanson

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

— Susan Cain

“They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin