Listening Quotes

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

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop.

Real communication is impossible without listening.

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.