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    Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

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    Your subconscious mind is always listening to and believing in everything you repeatedly say about yourself. So try not to become your own enemy of progress.

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    You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

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    Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

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    Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

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    Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

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    (after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

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    Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

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    "Acoustic ecologist" is basically a fancy name for someone who tries to become a better listener. Not just listening to those thoughts, ideas, and productions of human intention, but listening to places - whether it's an urban environment, residential, industrial, or even the farthest corner of the world, in one of our last great quiet places where we can listen to the pure sounds of nature without any human-caused noise intrusions.

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    Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.

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    After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.

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    After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

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    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!

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

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

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    Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

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    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.

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    Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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. .

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    Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

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