Listening Quotes

• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Waiting
  • Habit
  • Cat

• I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

  

  Kevin Richardson
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Saturday

• For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Black
  • Listening
  • March

• I just know I was part of a moment, and everyone showed up with love. I'm just blown away by this all but you can feel it in listening Forest Green, and it's hard to listen 'cos sometimes life distracts you or you run away from listening. We didn't know what we were doing.

  

  Andy Kim
  • Listening
  • Feel
  • Moment

• Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Listening
  • Interest
  • Powers

• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  

  Doug Larson
  • Wisdom
  • Listening

• I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.

  

  Cold Cave
  • World
  • Music
  • Feels

• I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

  

  James Salter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Fun

• It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

  

  John Niven
  • Bad
  • Knowledge
  • Listening

• I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Band
  • Son
  • Wolf

• The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Dream
  • Listening

• One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Simple
  • Listening

• Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Religion
  • Listening
  • Parable

• It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

  

  Marie Corelli
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Sunshine

• If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.

  

  Emily Remler
  • Players
  • Bar
  • Variations

• 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

• Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Success
  • Listening

• Try asking for Nyx's help." "Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons." "During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?" "Not once," he said "Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Trying
  • She
  • Help

• Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Nice

• 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 guess it's one thing to play a character and relate to a character, and it's a lot closer to me than people might think. They are obviously watching a person with another name. But when they are listening to my music, it's way more me and my story and my words . . . that is the main difference in that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I tried not to, but I couldn't help it. But, he's like a living legend, and you can't believe he's sitting right in front of you, you know? You grow up listening to him, and he's got so many great songs, and all those feelings just piled up on me.

  

  Camile Velasco
  • Living
  • Him
  • Legend

• Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dad

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