Listening Quotes

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.

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

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

It's about listening first, then selling.

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.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Never stop listening to your audience.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.