Listener Quotes

• Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

  

  Alan Hassenfeld
  • Say
  • Program
  • Listener

• The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Free
  • Attitude
  • Presence

• Using my listener database and RadioStudy has allowed me to get into the listener's head: What they value, fear, desire, etc.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Desire
  • Value
  • Radio

• I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

  

  Amanda Shires
  • Means
  • Decide
  • Listener

• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Journey
  • Record
  • Listener

• Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei preambles of faith, and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Faith
  • Christianity
  • Accept

• A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

  

  Johnny Olson
  • Voice
  • Ill
  • Repel

• The focus of my life begins at home with family, loved ones and friends. I want to use my resources to create a secure environment that fosters love, learning, laughter and mutual success. I will protect and value integrity. I will admit and quickly correct my mistakes. I will be a self-starter. I will be a caring person. I will be a good listener with an open mind. I will continue to grow and learn. I will facilitate and celebrate the success of others.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Family
  • Environment
  • Values

• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  

  Allan Kozinn
  • Music
  • Performers
  • Listener

• The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Flying
  • Aim
  • Listener

• To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Important
  • Job
  • Listener

• Suppose you try to convince someone, even if only yourself, that change is an illusion. You work your way through each step until you or your listener is convinced. Yet that your mind entertains one premise after the other and finally reaches the conclusion is itself an instance o f the change the argument denies.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Change
  • Argument
  • Illusion

• I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Regret
  • Listener
  • Contains

• It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

  

  Arlene Francis
  • Best
  • Listener
  • Conversationalist

• I think that including information about the songs inside a booklet within the album helps to enrich the listening experience and appreciation of the songs for the listener.

  

  David Longdon
  • Information
  • Songs
  • Booklets

• We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Going
  • Listener
  • About for us

• Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.

  

  Nils Frahm
  • Piano
  • Performers
  • Listener

• I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. Then I just go for it.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Decision
  • Courage
  • Advice

• Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Listener

• I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Leader
  • Listener

• Gary Cooper - the greatest listener in the world! And he used to answer in kind, which is wonderful because you don't see that anymore. People don't listen. They really don't.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Wonderful
  • Listen
  • Listener

• Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Atmosphere
  • Listener

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