Listening Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

I grew up listening to old soul.

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.