Listening Quotes

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.