Listening Quotes - Page 19

• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  Tony Bennett

  Should Have, Empathy, Understanding

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• If you do not believe that listening to the best people in the business telling you what they know will help you succeed, then you have allowed your ego and arrogance to get the best of you.

  Andy Albright

  Believe, People, Ego

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• Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

  Anna Kavan

  Silence, Quiet, Ifs

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• I love listening to classical music.

  Katharine McPhee

  Classical Music

  "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2010.

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• Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

  David Wenham

  Thinking, Keys, Two

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

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• Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.

  Leona Lewis

  Different, Radio, Stuff

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leona Lewis Interview". Glamour Interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 7, 2011.

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• I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

  Gemma Arterton

  Listening To Music, I Can

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• Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.

  Ron Livingston

  Office Space, Eight, Boss

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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• The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

  John Barth

  Love, Reading, Mean

  "Chimera". Book by John Barth, 1972.

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• ...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Love, Song, Home

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• The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

  Carl Rogers

  Strong, Moving, Mean

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• Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

  John Lennon

  Fall, Long, Empathy

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• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

  Andre Gide

  Kindness, Empathy, Joy

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

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• To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

  Peter Drucker

  Communication, Empathy, Understanding

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• If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Talking, Empathy, Understanding

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.44, John Wiley & Sons

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• In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

  John Wooden

  Empathy, Leader, Understanding

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• I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

  John Stott

  Pain, Voice, Despair

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• This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather.

  Jim Harrison

  Morning, Reading, Coffee

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• Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot in a puddle, listening to what another person has to say, allowing the energy of love to flow freely, instead of putting it in a jug and standing it in a corner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Talking, Feet, Trying

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• Listening is one of the forms of love.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Form, Forms Of Love

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• What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

  Richard L. Evans

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

  Willow Shields

  Running, Dad, Night

  "'Hunger Games'star Willow Shields takes us behind the scenes of 'The Haunting Hour'". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.

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• You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Communication, Fighting

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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Practice, Ingredients

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