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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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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People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.
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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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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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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
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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 remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.
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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'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
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I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
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I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
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If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
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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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Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your friendship. If you had a friend dealing with the same things, you wouldn’t berate that person, say, ‘You’re not working hard enough,’ ‘You suck,’ or ‘You’re not as good as [whomever].’ You’d offer your friend encouragement, you’d try to point out all the things your friend did right, and how much progress your friend had made. You should do no less for yourself. Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.
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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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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.
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But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
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I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.
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It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
