Listening Quotes

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I just love listening to the laughter.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.