Listening Quotes
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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Meg Wheatley
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My singing style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
Judy Garland
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I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.
Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
Alain de Botton
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I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.
I. M. Pei
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I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.
Drake Bell
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Listening is the essence of anything.
David Lyons
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Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
Brian Tracy
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Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.
Uwem Akpan
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
Donella Meadows
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It's hard listening to myself.
Meg White The White Stripes
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Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.
Ryan Adams
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Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
Anna Deavere Smith
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I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.
Kygo
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We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
Galt Niederhoffer
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If you're hungry, God is feeding. You know, if you're listening; He is speaking. And I think sometimes trouble and intense hardship can make us - it made me at times, you know, block our ears, shut our eyes, it's like too much. But actually He's speaking, He's encouraging us, He's loving us all the time.
Darlene Zschech
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It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
A. A. Milne
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque
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We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
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I enjoy staying home with friends more than going out. The other night, for example, my girlfriends and I stayed in listening to some '90s rap - my favorite kind. We were in the Hamptons and made it an all-Biggie weekend, all of his albums on repeat. I loved it.
Phoebe Tonkin
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Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
James Altucher