Listening Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Golf, Winning

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• I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up
  listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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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• By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

  William Carlos Williams

  Imagination, Use, Crafts

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• I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  World, Want, Needed

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2006). “Prom”, p.144, Penguin

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• Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Reading, Silence

  "Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

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• Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

  Janelle Monae

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

  Meg Greenfield

  Sleep, Talking Too Much, Retribution

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• Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

  Sia Furler

  Voice, Singing, Band

  "Sia Learns to Sound Like Herself". "Day to Day" with Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.

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• Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

  Scott Aukerman

  Next Week, Names, Bangs

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• It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world.

  Jane Yolen

  World, Lasts, Creatures

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• Welcome to RAW is Jericho! And I was just listening to your list of problems and grievances that you have with all my Jerichoholics, and I have a solution - and that solution is to SHUT THE HELL UP. But finally, Al Snow, tomorrow people WILL be acknowledging you - they WILL be talking about the greatest moment of '99 - they'll be talking about the night that Al Snow was brutally beaten by the Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla.

  Chris Jericho

  Night, Wwe, Rocks

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• Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

  Feargal Quinn

  Advantage, Form, Genuine

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• Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

  Gabby Douglas

  Wayne, Fired Up

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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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• Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

  Jane Siberry

  Thinking, Wonderful, Grew Up

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• Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Powerful, Real

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• The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

  Rick Santelli

  Government, America, People

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• My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Dad, New Orleans, Play

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Movement

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

  Andre Gide

  Memorable, People, Going Away

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