Listening To Others Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Janet Yellen

  Graduation, Humility, Ideas

  "The Best Career Advice From 2014 Commencement Speeches" by Jill Jacinto, www.businessinsider.com. May 23, 2014.

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• We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Apology, Offering

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, People, World

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pain, Simple, People

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press

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• Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Wise, Appreciation, Teaching

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• If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Cds, Interesting, Busy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Book, Ideas

  "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.

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

  Brian May

  People, Intuition, Sheets

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• I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.

  Judi Dench

  Cousin, Husband, Reading

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Should Have, Voice

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

  Walt Whitman

  Integrity, Independence, Lines

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

  Esther Dyson

  Visionaries, Way, Gains

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• As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

  Todd Rundgren

  Listening, Bed, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

  Michelle Branch

  Thinking, Others Opinions, Years

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• Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

  Alfred Doblin

  Different, Habit, Unhappiness

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• I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah."

  Joe Rogan

  Reading, Ideas, Addiction

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

  Jim Kolbe

  Compassion, Skills, People

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• There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

  Sue Townsend

  Dream, People, Problem

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• What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Body, Rest Of Your Life, Taught

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• Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

  Roberto Bolano

  Beach, Reading, Thinking

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• I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

  Bill Frisell

  Musician, Sound, Gains

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Self Confidence, Pride

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

  Matt Nathanson

  Song, Writing, People

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

  Gary Cole

  Thinking, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.avclub.com

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