Listening Quotes

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Listen, that you may live.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.