Listening Quotes · Page 57

Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

— Conan O'Brien

Never say you are alone and have no one to talk to because God is always listening.

— Anonymous

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

— Hugh Dennis

I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all.

— Robin Soderling

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

— Eric Clapton

There is no bad day that cant be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

— Aldous Huxley

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

— Dave Navarro

“Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country."--Augustus McCrae”

— Larry McMurtry

I'm looking, often, towards younger people, listening to how they're working, at least they're trying, and some of the old greats, too.…

— Peter Hedges

I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the…

— Santigold

I learnt how acting is more about listening to the other person; it is about reaction. You learn to be a foil,…

— Eoin Macken

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part…

— Graham Greene

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

— Steve Goodier

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…

— John Gardner

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with…

— Raymond Chandler

A song like 'Shade of Yellow,' it was like, me turning on my Imogen Heap brain. I was listening to a lot…

— Griff

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If…

— James Joyce

I'm doing more deep listening, which is part of the role or job of the songwriter. I think with a lot of…

— Mirah

You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You…

— Rhonda Byrne

I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most…

— Sarah Paulson

I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of…

— Finn Wittrock

Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research…

— Abhinavagupta

My musical style changes with every song that I make. I jokingly referred to it one time as 'emo thug', and I…

— The Last Skeptik

So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is…

— Carl Rogers

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

— Stephen King

I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.

— Pamela Druckerman

“Active listening is one of the best services a company can provide.”

— Susan C. Young

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

— Carl Rogers

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

— Rebecca Lobo

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

— Jodie Foster

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

— Rostam Batmanglij

We are literally touring the world, and people are listening to my music.

— Adore Delano

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

— Maya Angelou

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get…

— Vijay Singh

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

— Sufjan Stevens

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

— Natalie Maines

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

— Beth Comstock

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

— Robert Duvall

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever's listening to it, and my style is good…

— Amine