Listeners Quotes - Page 2

• I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

  David Sedaris

  Millions

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Southern, Radio

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Desire, Doe

  "How To Listen: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Work, Careers

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• The casual listener won't be around forever.

  Mike Shinoda

  Forever, Casual

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• My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

  Wallace Shawn

  Baby, Father, Thinking

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• If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

  Travis Barker

  Boys, Play, Listening

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm more of a listener than a talker.

  Norman Reedus

  Talkers

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• I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.

  ASAP Rocky

  Followers, Want, Way

  Interview with Alexander Wang, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 18, 2013.

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• President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Mistake, Long Ago

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attention, Taught, Failing

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Long, Politician, Good Listener

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• A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Thinking

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• If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

  Darrell Issa

  Media, Fewer, Five

  "Don't look back" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

  Kelly Jones

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• I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Inspired, Method

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• It takes a great man to be a good listener.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Relationship, Wisdom

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• If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Thinking, Talking, Names

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

  Jon Landau

  Frustration, Rolling, Nerves

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• I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Phones, Giving, Pay

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• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Speaks Out, Voice

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• I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

  John Mayer

  Thinking, Names, People

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• I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Compliment, Someday, Going To Work

  "Ashton Kutcher: I Couldn’t Be With a Woman Who 'Needed to Change Me'". Women's Health Interview, www.usmagazine.com. November 18, 2011.

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• You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acting, Needs, Lines

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• I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feelings, Problem, Clue

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.80, Vintage

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