Listening Quotes
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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
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When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
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Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.
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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
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Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.
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So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece George Michael: I can't make you love me.
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
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I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
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The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.
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When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.
