Listening Quotes

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

Before you speak, listen.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

I get my ideas from listening from within.

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

Most people never listen.

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.