I Am Listening Quotes

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Big egos have little ears.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

I'm always listening to music to pump myself up.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

I've never been a junkie, and never will be. I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music. Always have done. It's not that unusual for girls of 26.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.