Listening Quotes

• 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

• Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Tennis

• Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.

  

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
  • Eyes
  • Praying
  • Opening

• 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

• Podcast listening, much like radio listening, is largely a question of habit. And the most powerful habits are the ones that fit into our daily routine.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Question
  • Powerful
  • Daily

• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  

  Chungliang Al Huang
  • People
  • Important
  • Wise

• With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Listening

• 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

• Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Listening

• Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death type stuff.

  

  David Pajo
  • Stuff
  • Metal
  • Gotten

• I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Money
  • Way
  • Responsibility

• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  

  George Gamow
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Jump

• I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Up
  • Music
  • Calm

• We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Music
  • Awesome

• An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Voice
  • Tired
  • Last

• I always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to and not something that's just going to feed people stupidity.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Listening

• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  

  William Orbit
  • Parent
  • Uncomfortable
  • Discouraged

• If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Source

• 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

• 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

• Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

  

  Wendy Beckett
  • Listening
  • Looking

• 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

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