Listening Quotes
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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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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening
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Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.
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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 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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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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Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?
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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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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
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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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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
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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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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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It's about listening first, then selling.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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Listening can heal wounds.
