Best 1940 quotes in «listening quotes» category

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

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

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music that I'm usually listening to. I'm always looking there to hear new music and see what's going on so that's usually when I'll hear something and be like "Wow, that melody is really crazy.

All night, my face next to your mouth, I hold my breath, listening to yours.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

A lot of what I've had produced are plays, and I just don't want to do that. It's different than a movie, where you only have to act the scenes the one time, and you have other collaborators helping you make it better, so you don't feel as obsessed with your own mind. Plays you have to do every single night, and the thought of that is agony to me. There are days when you hate your own work, and you don't want to be confronted with that, have it coming out of your mouth or listening to somebody else say it to you. There are days you want to leave the theater and get a drink.

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

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.

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

Annabeth’s shoulders ached. The elevator’s easy-listening music didn’t help. If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world.

As a businesswoman you have to be open. I'm always open to listening and learning and considering. However, I don't look at business as anything other than a partnership. And in any partnership both parties need to leave the table happy.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in our families, among the people who form part of our daily lives? Faith is born from listening, and is strengthened by proclamation.

(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.

As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.