Listening Quotes

• Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Reading

• It's hard listening to myself.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Myself
  • Listening

• I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Why
  • Listening

• You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Listening

• If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Listening

• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Listening
  • Friendship
  • Gratitude

• Album 1 is proving that you're worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn't a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I've ever done.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Done
  • Listening

• I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

  

  Bob Galvin
  • People
  • Listening
  • Strive

• I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

  

  Jon Brion
  • Mind
  • Listening

• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Faces
  • Run

• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Value

• I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • People
  • Music
  • Understanding

• Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Positive

• I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • She
  • Truth

• I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened to as many singers as I could. Like, when I got to about 19/20, I started listening to singers. I normally just listened to bands. Now I listen to a lot of old singers, not a lot of new stuff.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Home
  • Listening

• I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Control

• Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Stop
  • Listening

• I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a huge fan and I get it. I wasn't initially a punk-rock fan. Now, I can appreciate what they stood for and who they were.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening

• 'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Song
  • Words

• I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • People
  • Team
  • Player

• I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Listening

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