Listening Quotes
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
Tony Blair
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Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
Paul Pierce
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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
George Szell
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Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
Peter Roskam
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo
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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
Ricky Reed
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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
C. Vivian Stringer
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To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
Frederic Chopin
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I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
Melissa Etheridge
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A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
Sue Grafton
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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.
Meg Wheatley
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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.
Evan Esar
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
Sean O'Casey
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When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
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The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
Katrina Mayer
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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.
Andrei Soldatov
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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
Hilary Mantel
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
Walt Whitman
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I don't mind either one crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.
Bill Burr