Listening Quotes
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I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.
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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.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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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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Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
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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.
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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
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I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.
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Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
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Politics is about listening and it's about leading.
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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!
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
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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.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.
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There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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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.
