I Am Listening Quotes

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

I think listening to people is helpful.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I saw a survey and it is that NFL fans are fed up with listening to players talk about politics.

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

For me, I don't think I gravitate to listening to only dark music.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other, because that's all you have as a guide.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.

If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

I listen to everything.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.