Listening Quotes

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

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.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

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.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

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

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.

Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

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.

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.

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