Listening Quotes
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If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.
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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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If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.
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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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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
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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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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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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'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
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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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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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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've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
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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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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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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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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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People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.
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Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
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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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Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.
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Most people never listen.
