Listening Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”
– Lillian Smith

“When I use the Internet, it’s pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people‘s web sites, what’s going on, listening to music. It’s pretty much a musical thing for me.”
– Liz Phair

“I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.”
– LL Cool J

“I don’t think anybody is anybody else’s moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.”
– Lou Reed

“One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you’re talking about.”
– Madeleine Albright

“Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.”
– Marcelene Cox

“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

“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.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

“Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley

“I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.”
– Marilyn vos Savant

“Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.”
– Mason Cooley

“Listening to people keeps them entertained.”
– Mason Cooley

“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”
– Max Beerbohm

“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.”
– Maynard James Keenan

“Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.”
– Maynard James Keenan

“You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.”
– Maynard James Keenan

“When I’m alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.”
– Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”
– Milan Kundera

“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.”
– Norah Jones

“I’ve been told the weirdest things: ‘Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!’ or ‘I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.’”
– Norah Jones

“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
– Pat Metheny

“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.”
– Paul Ryan

“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.”
– Pedro Martinez

“You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.”
– Phil McGraw

“Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.”
– Phil McGraw

“For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence.”
– Philip Pullman

“Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”
– Pope Paul VI

“Trees are the earth‘s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

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