Listening Quotes
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
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I want to be very authentic when I perform, because I feel like I owe that to people listening. You can't go through the motions on music like this. You are making people feel a certain way, that you are not feeling yourself. It's like saying "I want you guys to cry, but I don't really care," which isn't right.
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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
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I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.
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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.
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Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
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Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
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I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
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Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
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I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.
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If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.
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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
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Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
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If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.
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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
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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.
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If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.
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Everybody in the Soviet Union knew the expression “this is not a phone conversation,” which expressed a wish to discuss something in person because they were afraid somebody else might be listening. The “somebody else” was the state and its vast networks of informers.
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Listening can heal wounds.
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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.
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Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.
