Listening Quotes

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Social is about engaging, it's about a conversation, it's about listening and then responding, it's an ongoing conversation with our fan base.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.