Listening Quotes
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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.
Diane Ackerman
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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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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.
Errol Morris
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I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
George A. Romero
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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
R. A. Torrey
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.
Caroline Norton
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
Seneca the Younger
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I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.
Erik Per Sullivan
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin
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Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
Mike Myers
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
Tom Scholz Boston
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
Arthur Kleinman
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If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
John Haley Sims
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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.
Anni Albers
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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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People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.
Alex Blumberg
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Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.
DeLisha Milton-Jones