Listeners Quotes - Page 20

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

Wes Fesler

Heart, Parenting, Attention

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To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

Richard Branson

Leader, Self Improvement, Improvement

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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Paul Weyrich

Song, Media, Giving

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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

T Bone Burnett

Stress, Years, Sound

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There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

W. Somerset Maugham

Fighting, Your Side, Law

W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Casey Kasem

Inspiring, Heart, Stories

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The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.

David Lanz

Player, Mirrors, Light

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Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Peaceful, Atmosphere, May

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Gathas”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence.

Alan Hassenfeld

People, Mold, Students

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With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis,
I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

Clifton Anderson

Uplifting, People, Turmoil

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Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Karma, Communication

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from May 06, 2011

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If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Music, Writing, Flirting

Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Henry Threadgill

Music, Art, Crafts

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Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

John Vaillant

Chaos, Economic, Policy

"The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival". Book by John Vaillant, August 24, 2010.

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I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

Stephan Jenkins

Song, Powerful, Reality

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The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

Guy Kawasaki

Business, Mark, Good Conversation

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Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.

W.A. Mathieu

Healing, Musician, Degrees

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The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

Kelly Wearstler

Keys, Important, Key To Success

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Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

Vincent de Paul

Wisdom, Writing, Giving

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

Frank Bettger

People, Worry, Trying

Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

John Wooden

Empathy, Leader, Understanding

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It takes a great man to make a great listener

Arthur Helps

Men, Empathy, Understanding

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I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

Views, Empathy, Leader

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In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Rooms, Conscious, Save Nature

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