Listeners Quotes - Page 24

• A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

  Susan Sontag

  Intelligent, Listening, Important

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.382, Macmillan

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• As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Taken, Garden

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• Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Chicago, Degrees

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Memories, Father, Night

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• lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Sky, Voice

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

  Susan Sarandon

  School, Different, Debt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

  Joe Budden

  Artist, Listening, May

  Source: djbooth.net

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• For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Snow

  Wallace Stevens, John N. Serio, Robert Gantt Steele (2004). “Wallace Stevens”, p.29, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.

  J. K. Rowling

  Good Night, Eye, Mad

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• Songs are as sad as the listener.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Music, Song, Sadness

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  Carl Orr

  Musician, Majority, Failing

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• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Simple, Ideas

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• Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

  Dale Carnegie

  Persuasive, Good Listener

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

  Tablo

  Kissing, Two, Burning

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• It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sarcastic, Lying, Able

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.34, Penguin

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• No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

  Walter Benjamin

  Symphony, Beholder, Reader

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

  Sonya Sones

  Parent

  Sonya Sones (2007). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

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• The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

  James A. Garfield

  Christian, Running, Song

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Silence, Political, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.

  John Green

  Cheer, Nice, Passion

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.81, Penguin

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• A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

  Edward de Bono

  Beautiful, Mind, Attractive

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• A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

  Dan Reynolds

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive' video: empowerment, Lou Diamond Phillips-style". www.mtv.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

  Marvin Minsky

  Music, Personal Knowledge, Listening

  "Music, Mind, and Meaning". Computer Music Journal, Vol. 5, Number 3, web.media.mit.edu. Fall 1981.

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