Listeners Quotes - Page 6

• Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Doomed

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.73

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• Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

  Gina Barreca

  Moving, Humor, Firsts

  Gina Barreca (2013). “They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor”, p.201, UPNE

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• Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.

  Bob Walker

  Song, Today, Stills

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• The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Birth, Difficult, Midwife

  Meša Selimović (1999). “The Fortress”, p.13, Northwestern University Press

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• Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Advice

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• While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

  Timothy Keller

  Lying, Communication, Responsibility

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

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• The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Vanity, Talking

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• I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.

  William H. Gass

  Thinking, Talking, People

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November 2005.

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• When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Player, Rocks

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, Acting, Thousand

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.

  Nicole Richie

  Fashion, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.

  Michele Bachmann

  Different, Levels, Gifted

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• However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.

  Robin Farina

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.

  Marc Maron

  Listening, Sitting, Podcasting

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Opponents, Speak

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• I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.

  Rainn Wilson

  Real, Keys, Listening

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Half, Speech, Speakers

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• A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

  Louise Penny

  Character, Years, People

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• I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.

  Greg Laswell

  Wise, Song, Artist

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• Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Expression, Skills, Design

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• A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.

  Scott Pruett

  Race, Talking, Darkness

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• We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Want, Might

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• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  La Monte Young

  Heaven, Failing, Carried Away

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  Allan Kozinn

  Hands, Sound, Rebel

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