Listening Quotes · Page 50

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

— Meg Greenfield

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

— Nikki Giovanni

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

— Jim George

“It takes patience to listen. It takes skill to pretend you’re listening.”

— Harmon okinyo

When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

— Jojo Moyes

The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.

— Kelsea Ballerini

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we…

— Steve Jobs

I really don't listen to any of the negative stuff. Anything that's positive, that's kind of the stuff I'm listening to, and…

— Sage Northcutt

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38…

— Sean Connery

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a…

— Kirk Kerkorian

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in…

— Mother Teresa

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and…

— Kyle

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine…

— Charles Bukowski

People think you go home and be a celeb, sipping Laurent-Perrier and listening to classical music. You don't. You go home and…

— Gok Wan

“Twenty-Five Ways to Be a Good Listener        1. Be patient.        2. Don’t complete his sentences.        3. Let him finish, even if he…

— Sharon Jaynes

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it…

— Adam Gopnik

Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult…

— Tom Vilsack

The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,…

— Tom Vanderbilt

I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things…

— Ahmed Gallab

You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very…

— Ronald D. Moore

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing.…

— Charlie Worsham

When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“Anyone who takes the time to listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman

I grew up listening to Oasis and The Verve; English music was huge in my house.

— Dean Lewis

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

— Anonymous

“be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.”

— George R.R. Martin

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

— Gaston Bachelard

“It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

— Tom Peters

I've grown up listening to Jack Johnson and John Mayer. But I also love to groove on stage like Justin Timberlake.

— Cody Simpson

We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.

— Andy Grammer

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

— Richard L. Evans

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

— Hailey Rhode Baldwin

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.

— Thalia Zedek

“Just because someone doesn't respond...doesn't mean they are not Listening.”

— M (Michelle) Carithers

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

— Anonymous

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

— Sandra Cisneros