Listening Quotes · Page 53

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

— Rabindranath Tagore

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

— Prince Harry

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

— Juliana Hatfield

A friend shares the good times and helps out by listening during the bad times.

— Molly Olive

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was…

— Sumner Redstone

My earliest memories were in the back of my grandad's car listening to Test Match Special.

— Stuart Broad

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

— Keith Emerson

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

— Susanne Bier

I feel like when I was in college I was listening to the Walkmen a lot and I actually have a memory…

— Rostam Batmanglij

“The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the…

— Bryant McGill

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't…

— Van Morrison

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on…

— Ann Richards

Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large…

— Steve Lohr

My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio.…

— Diana Krall

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will…

— Laura Fitton

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most…

— Philip Selway

Bands get passed down as a tradition because people say to their kids: 'You want to hear this, because this right here…

— B-Real

That bothers me when I see that fashion editors are consultants for brands. It tells me that the designer has lost sight…

— Polly Allen Mellen

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

“But what if--" I realize that I don't want him to disappear. I may not fully believe he's real; I may not…

— Jodi Picoult

What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the…

— Christina Perri

I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I…

— Alfred Brendel

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that…

— Taylor Russell

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that…

— Mark Nepo

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

— Frankie Valli

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

— Robert Schumann

“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.”

— Chris Murray

One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

— Anonymous

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

— Arlene Francis

If you always look to another to resolve your problems, you will never learn, life is teaching you, if you would listen!

— Anonymous

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

— Ruskin Bond

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

— Nhat Hanh

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

— Stephen Malkmus

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his…

— Action Bronson

“Reflective listening is where you yell into a canyon and wait for the echo!”

— Dr Steven Bottomley

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

— Ryan Eggold

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

— Graham Nash

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

— Steve Tibbetts

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort…

— Todd Rundgren