Listening Quotes
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I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.
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I never thought I'd say this, but to any child listening, the world is your oyster.
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Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
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It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
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I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".
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Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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All of my style came from listening to records.
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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'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.
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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
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Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.
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I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.
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I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
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And everything in the world that mattered was in the happy stories Andrés was telling. And everything in the world was Ileana listening to the brother she loved. And everything in the world was waiting.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.
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I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
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I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.
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I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
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What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.
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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.
