Listening Quotes - Page 18

• A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Answers, Persons, Seems

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.232, John Wiley & Sons

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Soul, Sacred

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• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Teach, Dialogue

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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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• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  Chuck Berry

  People

  "Chuck Berry: Music legend given rock 'n' roll sendoff", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2017.

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• I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

  Chuck Cannon

  Music, Song, Ideas

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• To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Men, Composer

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• I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Culture, Records, England

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• Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

  Richard Rohr

  Profound, Suffering, Vision

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• There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Differences, Silence, Ifs

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• Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

  Brian Tracy

  Talking, Habit, Dominating

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• Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

  Bill Drayton

  Skills, Empathy, Understanding

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• Listening is love in action.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Action

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• I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Song, People

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Space, Despair, Complacency

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  Carla Bley

  Important, Receiving, Music Is

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• The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

  Smokey Robinson

  White, Black, Firsts

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• Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Exercise, House, Honor

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.169, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Self, Advice

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• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  Vince McMahon

  Pulse, Events, Reason

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• Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

  John Pilger

  War, Reading, Two

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• When you are grounded in the present - feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas - you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.

  Debbie Ford

  Ideas, Feelings, Body

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• For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.

  Jad Abumrad

  Trying, May, Radio

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