Listeners Quotes - Page 14

• Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.

  Ian Kershaw

  Self, Mastery, Speech

  Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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• As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

  Richard Branson

  People, Leader, Praise

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• I hate irony, particularly when it is used because there isn't any message or to hide that someone hasn't any story to tell. Just like when someone only spews out a stack of cool words which don't mean anything and then has the gall to call it art. I always want to create a bridge between us and the listener, and I want it to be so that kids want to create for themselves a story or a context of the words.

  Jack White

  Art, Hate, Mean

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Loneliness, Imagination, Scary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

  Tony Todd

  School, Mean, Winning

  "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

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• A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Half, Speech, Speakers

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• I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Trying, Sentimental

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• The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Writing, Differences

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• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  A. R. Rahman

  Ideas, Music Is, Feels

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• It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Mindfulness, Attention

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• Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

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• My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Song, Land, Knowing

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

  Greg Laswell

  Wise, Song, Artist

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• Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Expression, Skills, Design

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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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• If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

  Venerable Bede

  Godly, Thoughtful, People

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• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  La Monte Young

  Heaven, Failing, Carried Away

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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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• What I love most about playing in front of people has something to do with a certain kind of energy exchange. The attention and appreciation of my audience feeds back into my playing. It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener, making me aware of how much I depend on my audience. And since the audience is different every night, the music being played will differ too. Every space I performed in has its own magic and spirit.

  Nils Frahm

  Appreciation, Night, Space

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• If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

  Joss Stone

  Play, Creating, People

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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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• Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

  Sue Thoele

  Summer, Communication, Judging

  Sue Patton Thoele (2000). “Heart centered marriage: fulfilling our natural desire for sacred partnership”

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