I Am Listening Quotes

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Not everyone is worth listening to.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

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.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

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

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

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

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.