Listening Quotes - Page 22

• Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

  Bill Maher

  Fire, Community, Gathering

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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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• 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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• Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Reading, Talking

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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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• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Important, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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

  Jude Bijou

  Connections, Strengthening, Persons

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• I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

  Carter Burwell

  Film

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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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• I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

  Stephanie Beacham

  People, Ears, Too Much

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• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Growing, Hearing

  "Tammy Baldwin launches" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 06, 2011.

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• See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

  Kim Coates

  Waiting, Doe, Cry

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• I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

  Cat Cora

  Talking, Ideas, Advice

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• My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

  Casey Affleck

  Mom, Long, Choices

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

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• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

  David Amram

  Four, Way, Gorgeous

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

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• I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

  Charles Durning

  Play, Acting, Goes On

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

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• I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

  Jeff Daniels

  Thinking, Littles, Hearing

  "CLICK Blog" by Tim Man, www.politico.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Voice, Years

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• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

  Charles Frazier

  Giving Up, Reading, Sticks

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• I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Song, Beach, Husband

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• I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it's good because it means I'm always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Mean, Taste, Sometimes

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• The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Clever, Numbers

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