Listeners Quotes - Page 11

• And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Listening, Gathering

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.262, Hamilton Books

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• I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

  Quiet, Silent, Taciturn

  William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4

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• A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Helping

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• Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.

  Edward Feser

  Yelling, Chinese, Fool

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• Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Art, Self

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• So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

  Dale Carnegie

  Good Conversation, Aspire, Ifs

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments

  Dale Carnegie

  Accomplishment, Interesting, Enjoy

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

  Alan Perlis

  Program, Explaining, Ifs

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• My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
  Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

  Tahir Shah

  Dream, Father, Eye

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Sep 15, 2013

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• There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  People, Listening, Benefits

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

  Amanda Shires

  Song, Horse, Hate

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• The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.

  Kevin Stirtz

  Care, Persons

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• Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Good Listener, Influencing People, Win Friends And Influence People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.83, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

  Scott Pruett

  Race, Talking, Darkness

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• A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

  Louise Penny

  Character, Years, People

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Truth, Honesty

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• I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

  J. Robbins

  Might, Kind, Miles

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

  Neal Boortz

  Hate, Truth Is, Journalist

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• You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.

  Saint Basil

  Animal, Thinking, Air

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• We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

  Charlene Li

  Marketing, Ends, Great Marketing

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• Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

  Leo Ornstein

  Talking, Trying, Compromise

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• I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

  Leo Ornstein

  Thinking, Trying, Pieces

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• I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.

  Orson Welles

  Children, Adventure, Should Have

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• Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Symphony, Different

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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