Listening Quotes · Page 68

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my…

— Burnie Burns

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

— Audrey McLaughlin

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

— Rachel Carson

“I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you…

— Jenny B. Jones

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

— Wynton Marsalis

You wind up listening to one song that you really like 30 times on YouTube and then you're done with it. That's…

— Kevin Shields

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things…

— Budd Schulberg

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone…

— Simon Sinek

I just truly want to live in this dream world that I've created. And I want everyone else to live in it…

— Chappell Roan

I've been listening to Nicki Minaj since high school. Like, mix tape Nicki Minaj. Like, the mix tape, you know, 2006/2007. Huge…

— Bianca Belair

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on…

— Lauren Mayberry

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks…

— Shakti Gawain

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are…

— Miriam Makeba

The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the…

— Lance B. Wickman

Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday,…

— Barack Obama

My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what…

— Afrojack

My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape…

— Joel Madden

“Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not…

— Vaddey Ratner

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't…

— Patty Griffin

You can make a huge difference by sharing your story or simply inviting people in your own community to have a conversation…

— Dean Phillips

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began…

— Alan Alda

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

— Connie Willis

Sing like no one is listening and dance like nobody's watching:)

— Rayy Of Sunshine

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

— Yasmin Mogahed

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

— Beyonce Knowles

“No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

— Meryl Streep

“You can't get rid of your heart Just as you can't get rid of your head So, you might as well get…

— José N. Harris

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

— Michael Thomas Ford

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

— Ambrose Bierce

God speaks to those who take the time to listen and He listens to those who take the time to pray.

— Mario Tomasello

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

— Julian Treasure

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

— Bret Bielema

I've been listening to a lot of looped jazz stuff: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius.

— Calum Hood

I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.

— Madlib

“Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.”

— Abhishek Ratna