Listening Quotes · Page 67

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

— William Hazlitt

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

— Saadi

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

— Rumi

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

— Dan Deacon

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

— Rob Brezsny

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

— Terry Pratchett

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun…

— Chanel Iman

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see…

— Sadie Calvano

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me.…

— Graham Coxon

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians…

— Branford Marsalis

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps…

— Deepak Chopra

I'm a child of the 80s so I grew up listening to an awesome variety of music. John Cougar Mellencamp, Tom Petty.…

— Ty Stone

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means…

— Luca Guadagnino

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:…

— Agnes Varda

“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases…

— James Burke

Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky…

— Richard Wiseman

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind…

— Noam Chomsky

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny…

— Jennifer Egan

There's just so many great artists out there, but I think growing up, J. Cole has been the guy that I've always…

— C. J. McCollum

The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed…

— Anthony of Padua

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and…

— Tom Ford

It takes patience to listen. It takes skills to pretend you're listening.:p

— Purvish Gandhi

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

— Wilson Mizner

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

— Charles Spurgeon

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

— Jeff Buckley

“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. ”

— Michael P Nichols

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

— George Will

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

— Frederick Buechner

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

— Clint Eastwood

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

— Mayer Hawthorne

After listening to several scripts, I zeroed in on director Hanu Raghavapudi's script and that's how 'Lie' happened.

— Nithiin

Just listen; the reason women seem complicated to men is because we don't listen.

— Silas

I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like.

— Iwan Rheon

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

— Drew Pinsky

I'm not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I'd rather bash my head against…

— Keith Flint