Listening Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

  Germany Kent

  Beautiful, Knowing, Giving

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• When you are grounded in the present - feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas - you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.

  Debbie Ford

  Ideas, Feelings, Body

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• For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.

  Jad Abumrad

  Trying, May, Radio

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• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  Melissa Leo

  Keys, Talking, Acting

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

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• I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from.

  James Marsters

  Real, Nice, Years

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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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• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  Vince McMahon

  Pulse, Events, Reason

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• I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

  Bill Wyman

  Music, Rocks, Long

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• I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.

  Patty Griffin

  Love, Song, Confused

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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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• It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

  Fred Ward

  Men, Talking, Trying

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• I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

  Joe Shuster

  Views, Empathy, Leader

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• In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

  David S. Broder

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

  Bob Galvin

  People, 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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• I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Talking, Organization

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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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• We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.

  Brian Andreas

  Beach, Fun, Hard Work

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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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• One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Healing, Coaching

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  Richard L. Evans

  Important, May, Interruptions

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