Listening Quotes

• Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

  

  Chip R. Bell
  • Curiosity
  • Insight
  • Fuel

• Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Speak

• Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Remember
  • Listening
  • Victim

• I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Listening
  • Musician

• 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
  • Mind
  • Form
  • Ready

• Before you speak, listen.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Listening
  • Speak

• There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Listening

• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Ocean
  • Human Heart

• 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
  • Listening
  • Hold
  • Imaginary

• Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Fellows
  • Flattering

• I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

  

  Mike Yaconelli
  • Things
  • Christ
  • Happens

• 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
  • Children
  • Memories
  • Grandmother

• Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • inspirational
  • Stress
  • Sorry

• Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Listening
  • Week

• He was listening so I don't remember.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Listening
  • Don't Remember

• 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
  • Listening
  • Bigs

• Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Listening

• 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
  • Listening
  • Improvisation

• When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Trying
  • Car
  • Certain

• I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Listening

• It's about listening first, then selling.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • Listening
  • Selling

• Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Everything
  • Building
  • Anything

• 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.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Mean

• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Home
  • Engineering
  • Songwriting

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