Listening Quotes
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
Colin Hay
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
Patty Duke
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
Marilyn vos Savant
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
Ben Harper
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
Jason Schwartzman
I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
Kathy Griffin
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
Coco Lee
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
William Shatner
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
Clint Eastwood
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
Maynard James Keenan
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin