Best 1940 quotes in «listening quotes» category

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

Like when I'm singing live I can't hear myself. I'm just listening to the rest of the band. To listen to my voice, it doesn't even feel like it's me.

Listening can heal wounds.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world

Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

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

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

Listening is not merely hearing, it is receiving the message that is being sent to you. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is letting it land before you react. Listening is letting your reaction make a difference. Listening is active.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop like R&B. This kind of made me feel a little bit better, because I realized it was all the same, you know. There's no difference. It's just music.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.

Listening is more important than talking.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response.