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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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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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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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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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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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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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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He was listening so I don't remember.
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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.
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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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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
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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.
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Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.
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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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Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.
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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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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.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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.
