Listeners Quotes - Page 19

• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

  John Powell

  Want, Nonviolent Communication, Good Listener

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• It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Communication

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• The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to safeguard the future of listener-powered community radio.

  Amy Goodman

  Independent, Media, Support

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• Festus, you're such a great listener.

  Maria Kanellis

  Wwe

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• I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

  Patty Griffin

  Thinking, Quality, Hungry

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• I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Teaching, Thinking, Giving

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• I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

  Wes Borland

  Feelings, Wanted, Storyteller

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• I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

  Sharon Creech

  Brother, Home, Feet

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• You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Light, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Journey, Order

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

  St. Vincent

  Song, Thinking, People

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• It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

  Chely Wright

  Country, Feelings, Desire

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

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• My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

  Diane Keaton

  Mother, Talking, Talkers

  "Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

  Diana Krall

  Song, People, Giving

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• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Past, Trying

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• Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  "Newcomer Norah Jones breaks through with jazzy debut". "The Music Room", www.cnn.com. April 24, 2002.

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• I'm a darned good listener.

  Naomi Judd

  Good Listener

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• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  Imogen Heap

  War, Needs, Sparks

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• I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

  Terry Gross

  Reality, Risk, Needs

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• Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

  Peter Guber

  Heart, Technology, Fans

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

  Ellen Bass

  Email, Heard, Great Gifts

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• I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

  David Gilmour

  Interpretation, Spoil, Limitation

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• When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

  George Duke

  Creativity, Thinking, Cds

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• Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Majority, Persuasion

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• I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)

  Aravind Adiga

  Thinker, Originals

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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