Listening Quotes - Page 39

• The biggest challenge in working together is simply listening.

  Colette Freedman

  Challenges, Working Together, Together

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

  Ann Coulter

  Book, Reading, Mean

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• (I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Player, Europe

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• Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

  William J. Clinton

  People, President, Littles

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• Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.

  Robert Tisserand

  Hard Work, People, Helping

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• Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

  Peter Drucker

  Skills, Discipline

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.15, Routledge

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• You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Unions, Habit, Conversation

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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  I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

  Peyton Manning

  Love Is, Thinking, Asking Questions

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• A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
  Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
  His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
  Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
  Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
  Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
  No more sits listening by his den, but steals
  Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
  And crops its juicy-blossoms.

  William C. Bryant

  Dog, Sleep, Doors

  William Cullen Bryant, “Noon”

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• Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

  Helen Keller

  White, Crow, Good Listener

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.63, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

  Kaskade

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Hymns

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• So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

  Muriel Spark

  Lying, Night, Silence

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• Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

  Anne Sexton

  Time, Animal, Body

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Saint, Incense

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Prayer, Meditation, Trust In God

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• What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

  Will Oldham

  Singing, Records, Music Making

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Two, People, Ears

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
  And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

  Charles Churchill

  Play, Wonder, Made

  Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”

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• Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Surveillance, Telephones

  "'Nobody is listening to your calls': Obama's evolution on NSA surveillance" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2013.

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• When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Nsa, Names

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.

  John Varvatos

  Brother, Eight, Dna

  "The GQ+A: John Varvatos on His New Book 'John Varvatos: Rock in Fashion'". Interview with Scott Christian, www.gq.com. October 17, 2013.

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• There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Morning, Blue

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• The music beckons to those who are listening.

  Robert Plant

  Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Husband, Father, Men

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