Listening Quotes
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I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.
Kevin Costner
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Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.
Phil McGraw
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I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.
Shay Carl
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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- )
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.
Sandra Cisneros
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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.
Anne-Marie
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I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
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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
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One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.
Marcel Proust
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Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
Stephen Carter
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Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
S. D Gordon
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Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
Jennifer Donnelly
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The 'Maybe Memories' album I remember having and listening until it broke. I remember it skipped one day; two or three songs wouldn't play on my CD player because I listened to it so much.
Kellin Quinn
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I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
Benjamin Clementine
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
Andrew Harvey
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