Listening Quotes

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

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Long
  • Listening
  • Stories

• Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Rip

• I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Listening

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.

  

  King Tuff
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

  

  Robert Palmer
  • Listening

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I grew up listening to English music.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Up
  • Music
  • English

• The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Art
  • Success
  • Communication

• I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • School
  • Lost
  • Space

• Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Listening

• It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

  

  Debbi Peterson
  • Mind
  • Amazing
  • Singing

• I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • World
  • Music
  • Money

• But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Training

• I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • People
  • Music
  • Intuition

• Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.

  

  Paula Pell
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • America
  • Listening

• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• There's nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I've done that.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Done
  • Game
  • Football

• Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super Bowl or the World Series, we assume that that is what they're targeting.

  

  Peter T. King
  • World
  • Listening
  • Celebration

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