Listening Quotes And Sayings

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“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
– Henry J. Kaiser

“There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.”
– Henry Van Dyke

“I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it’s so petty.”
– Imelda Marcos

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James A. Baldwin

“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.”
– James Cash Penney

“Even from a listening end now, I’m still completely a fan of music.”
– James Iha

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.”
– Jane Goodall

“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.”
– Jason Schwartzman

“Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?”
– Jay-Z

“That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.”
– Jay-Z

“But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I’m so experienced in training – I’m actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.”
– Jean Claude Van Damme

“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.”
– Jeanette Winterson

“The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.”
– Jessica Savitch

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.”
– Joan Didion

“Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.”
– Joan Didion

“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.”
– John Lubbock

“Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.”
– John Podhoretz

“We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.”
– Joni Mitchell

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
– Joyce Brothers

“Yes, I’ve listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. I’ve wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”
– Karl A. Menninger

“I’m always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.”
– Kathy Griffin

“My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I’m listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.”
– Kiefer Sutherland

“I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I’ve learned I can’t do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That’s why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.”
– Kristen Stewart

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
– Larry King

“I’ve woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I’m listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.”
– Lenny Kravitz

“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.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
– Lewis Thomas

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