Listening Quotes

• Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Listening

• 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

• 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

• Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.

  

  George Perez
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Mean
  • Listening
  • Leap

• I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

  

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Spreading

• I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Song
  • Space
  • Thoughts

• I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• 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

• 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

• I remember listening to 'Maniac' and running around and thinking I'm going to be somebody someday.

  

  Maria Bello
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Running

• Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

  

  J Balvin
  • Listening

• We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Silence
  • Leadership
  • Silent

• When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Writing
  • Wonderful
  • Hours

• All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Think
  • Star
  • Listening

• I feel like there's so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Kids
  • Feel

• I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Classical
  • Mostly
  • Sixteen

• The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.

  

  SZA
  • Money
  • Childhood
  • Sister

• 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'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Action
  • Listening

• At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Want
  • Lyrics
  • Impression

• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Artist
  • Week

• My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Listening

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