Listening Quotes · Page 83

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point…

— Robert Reich

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“There is more to hear in what is not said.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

— Javed Ali

He was listening so I don't remember.

— Eugene Ormandy

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming…

— A. N. Wilson

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

— Naomi Judd

For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.

— Sarah Barthel

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint…

— Anonymous

She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I was always listening to music on headphones or working on something on my computer. I realised it wasn't healthy to be…

— Tom Misch

Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and…

— Jillian Hervey

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the…

— Ayn Rand

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he…

— Charles Dickens

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we…

— Nhat Hanh

Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing…

— RJD2

Music is one of the only things that helps to reconnect neural pathways in our brain: listening, performing, singing, making a verbal…

— Melody Gardot

“I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of…

— Conor Oberst

The Word LISTEN Contains the same letters as SILENT. Listen to GOD in the Silence of your Heart and you'll know HIS…

— Pacifiersucker

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's…

— Nancy Etcoff

But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but…

— Sarah Palin

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

— Peter Drucker

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

— Maren Morris

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

— Lillian Smith

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

— Pauline Oliveros

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

— Richard Ford

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some…

— J. Cole

The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never…

— Philip Glass

I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going…

— Joe Principe

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

— Guy Finley

When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.'…

— Robyn

I'm always listening to music to pump myself up.

— Bella Heathcote

I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest.…

— Ariana Grande

There probably is a lot of music that no one's ever gonna hear. For anyone doing music, just do exactly what it…

— Dustin Diamond

I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect…

— Lily Collins

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

— William J. Clinton

All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in…

— Will Oldham