Listening Quotes · Page 6

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

— Eudora Welty

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

— James Patterson

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

When I say never mind I really mean you should have listened the first time.

— Anonymous

“The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.”

— Colette Ruland Parrino

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to…

— Jack Gantos

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But…

— Christopher Reeve

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a…

— Daniel Barenboim

“He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.”

— Laini Taylor

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says]…

— Billy Joel

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this…

— Geraldine McCaughrean

The battle between free will and listening to the inner voice will remain eternal. Similarly, in the debate over material and spiritual…

— Vikram Bhatt

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

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

I wanted to make an album that would make other people feel the way I felt listening to 'Melodrama.'

— Maisie Peters

Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project…

— Sarah Vowell

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

— Bruce Lee

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole…

— Gichin Funakoshi

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

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I still love listening to the old stuff - Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, you know. I stick to the old school stuff,…

— Evan Ross

Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

— Jude Bijou

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz…

— Eldar Djangirov

Once you been listening to the same CD for, like, two weeks, three weeks, it get old to you. You need something…

— Young Dolph

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

— Rachel Naomi Remen