Listening Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

  Mario Cuomo

  Honesty, Reflection, Thoughtful

  Mario Cuomo (2012). “Reason to Believe”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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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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• 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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• The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Voice, Ego

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  Patty Duke

  Rolling, Sitting, Stones

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• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  Jack Dorsey

  Interesting, Looks, Keyboards

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• Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

  Jude Bijou

  Connections, Strengthening, Persons

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• To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thrones, Ifs, Powerless

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

  Howard Gordon

  Practice, Promise, Stories

  "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

  Robert Breault

  People, Attention

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• The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

  Robert Breault

  People, Looks, Way

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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

  A. S. Byatt

  People, Age, Used

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• With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

  Tracy Chapman

  People, Swapping, Way

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• Give us grace to listen well.

  John Keble

  Giving, Grace, Wells

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.64

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• If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

  George Washington Carver

  Enough, Ifs

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• It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Cutting, Hair, Hunters

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• People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

  Jane Wagner

  Sex, People, Needs

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• I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

  Adam Brody

  Worry, Want, Wonder

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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