Listening Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Listening
  • Week

• 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

• I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Pleasure
  • Term
  • Instinct

• 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 like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Vision

• It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • World
  • Trying
  • Internet

• If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Interesting
  • Listening
  • Relevant

• As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Listening
  • Matter

• A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Listening
  • Talking
  • Finds

• There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Waiting
  • Speak
  • Differences

• Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Understanding
  • Listening
  • Questioning

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