Listening Quotes
- Page 4My 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
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
Bjork
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Pope Paul VI
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones
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.
Leo Buscaglia
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Brian Eno
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
Stanley Crouch