Listening Quotes · Page 48

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

— Eudora Welty

Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.

— Mase

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.

— Edgar Argo

“Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.”

— Joseph Kennedy

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.”

— Farshad Asl

Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

— Flea

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

— Hoda Kotb

This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may…

— Buzz Aldrin

The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when…

— Doreen Virtue

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other…

— Serge Schmemann

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

— Mike Scheidt

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around…

— Mannie Fresh

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and…

— Patty Schemel

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened…

— James Vincent McMorrow

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

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend…

— Mac DeMarco

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is…

— Ted Cruz

Honestly, I've been reading a lot of books on visual art. I've been reading a lot of books by Olivia Lang, I've…

— Arlo Parks

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed…

— Shannon Hale

“Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt,…

— Garth Stein

You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement…

— Dave Barry

“You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing”

— Julia Heywood

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

— Johnny Flynn

“Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment.”

— Susan C. Young

“May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.”

— William Faulkner

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

— R. Kent Hughes

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

— Max Ehrmann

“Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.”

— Randy Alcorn

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

— Tom Harrell

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

— Melissa Leo

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

— Badshah

Sometimes, you're not always right. Sometimes, you should just listen.

— ProudLesbian

“For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!”

— Nancy B. Brewer

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to…

— Morgan Spurlock

I will say about my fans, from day one they've been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

— Gabriella Wilson

I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

— Laurie Halse Anderson