I Am Listening Quotes

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

Listening can heal wounds.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you

You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

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?

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.

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

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.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

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 wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.