Listening Quotes

• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Talking

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Listening

• I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Listening
  • Everyone
  • Going To

• 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?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Enemy
  • Honor
  • President

• I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.

  

  Alice Bag
  • People
  • Singing
  • Abuse

• I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Sometimes
  • Discipline
  • Parent

• 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

• He was listening so I don't remember.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Listening
  • Don't Remember

• 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
  • Games
  • Talent
  • Teammate

• Listening can heal wounds.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Listening
  • Wounds

• 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
  • Suffering
  • Listening

• Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

  

  George Szell
  • Listening
  • Improvement
  • Mozart

• When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Listening

• 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
  • Experience
  • Listening
  • Composer

• 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
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Language

• 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

• 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
  • Listening
  • Argument

• Listening only truly happens with an open heart and a closed mouth.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Open

• 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

• 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
  • Listening
  • Conversation
  • Phone

• When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Sometimes
  • 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

• 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

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

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Listening

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