Listening Quotes
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
Jane Austen
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Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
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I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
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By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.
David "Doc" Searls
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I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
Sara Zarr
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I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
Robert Wilkie
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When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.
Eyvind Kang
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Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.
Jarvis Cocker
Pulp
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I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
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Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
Rian Johnson
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Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.
Anna Kavan
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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
Neil Clark Warren
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When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton
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The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
Michael Caine
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If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
Erica Jong
