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• Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fate, Moon, Oysters

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene ( p. 33), 2000.

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• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

  Studs Terkel

  Funny, Jobs, War

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• My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Firsts, Jazz

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• I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

  Terry Bozzio

  Trying, Titles, Imagery

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

  Charles Clark

  Reading, Expression, Sound

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• Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Winning, Listening

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• I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

  John Malkovich

  Men, House, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

  Kim Stanley

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• When you’re married to Miranda Lambert, you've gotta give her her room because she’s a powerful force. I think it’s more about just listening and understanding who she is and what her insecurities may be and how to approach our marriage as an open minded listener and a shoulder to lean on.

  Blake Shelton

  Powerful, Thinking, Giving

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• A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

  Johnny Olson

  Voice, Ill

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• My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world...not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.

  Nikhil Banerjee

  Space, Soul, Musician

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• There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

  Amjad Ali Khan

  Differences, Essentials, Want

  "Indian Legend Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Sons Perform in NYC" by Jim Luce, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not writing for them. I have something to tell them, but the audience must also put a certain effort into it. But I never wrote for an audience and never will write for one, because you have to give the listener something and he has to make an effort in order to understand certain things.

  Henryk Gorecki

  Mean, Writing, Thinking

  "Composer Henryk - Mikolaj Górecki". Interview with Bruce Duffie, www.bruceduffie.com.

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• My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

  Kristian Bush

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Writing, People

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• The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Video, Looks

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• I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

  Jorie Graham

  Moving, Philosophical, Emotional

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• I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

  M. Ward

  Writing, Kind, Painting

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• If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.

  Barry Lopez

  Writing, Advice, Together

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Aug 04, 2011

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• This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, Doubt, Listening

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

  Jane Smiley

  Teaching, Eye, Thinking

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• I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Blunt

  Song: Memory Lane, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• Just take me home where the mood is mellow
  And the roses are grown
  M&M's are yellow
  And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
  Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
  One for you and one for your sister
  Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
  Every song's a favorite song
  And mics don't feed back.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Nice, Home

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• I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.

  John Prine

  Song, Thinking, Color

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• Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

  George W. Bush

  Actors, Good Listener, Good Actors

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