Listening Quotes - Page 25

• A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Women, Sore Throat, Good Listener

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• My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Stars, Children, Real

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

  John Guare

  Ballet, Body, Spirit

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• You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

  Max Lucado

  Differences, Office, People

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• Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

  Jim George

  People, Important, Acts Of Love

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• Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

  Steven Millhauser

  Space, Mad, Silence

  Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.28, Vintage

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Pauline Oliveros (2010). “Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Trying, Our Children

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Results

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.22, Penguin

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• The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

  Brenda Ueland

  Believe, Alive, Way

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• The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Years, Way, Accepting

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Teaching, Asking Questions, Understanding

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• We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

  Rob Brezsny

  Curiosity, Needs, Thanks

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books

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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Bees, Revolutionary

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Sound, Taiwan, Flavor

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• Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

  Chris Murray

  Discipline, Moments, That Moment

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• We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Trying, Arms

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• But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

  Babyface

  Moving, Fans, Moving Forward

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• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  Gayle King

  Memories, Dad, Party

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• I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  World, Used, Right Time

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• I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Pieces, World

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• I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

  Kristen Stewart

  Desire, Looks, World

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• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Process

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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