I Am Listening Quotes

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

If I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.

I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.

There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.