Listening Quotes - Page 17

• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Process

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Cds, Car

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

  Sonia Choquette

  Prayer, Meditation, Asking

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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• I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Movement, Punk

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• You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Atheist, Order, Fairs

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• Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.

  Byron York

  Taken, Night, Years

  "Obama's disconnected, out of touch, in denial State of the Union" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. January 21, 2015.

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• After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Self

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  Catherine McCormack

  Tired, Voice, Lasts

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

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• Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Life, Playing Yourself, People

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Truth, Murmuring, Subconscious

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

  William Hague

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Years, Way, Accepting

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

  Claude Monet

  Inspiration, Instinct, Superb

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• It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to.

  Stephanie Ellis

  Dresses, Facts, Contribution

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• Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Husband, Children

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

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• When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.

  Jojo Moyes

  Life, Stuff, Sensible

  Jojo Moyes (2014). “The One Plus One”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Forgotten

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Quality

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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• If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

  Ellen Langer

  Discovery, Ideas, Creative

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• Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Blessed, Heart, Sound

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Needs, Might, Therapy

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• All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

  Steve Vai

  Practice, Play, Understanding

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

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• There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Reading, Worry

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• Listening to nature's operating instructions.

  Janine Benyus

  Instruction

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• Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

  Aleister Crowley

  Missing, Imagine, Notes

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