Listening Quotes - Page 15

• Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

  Steven Millhauser

  Space, Mad, Silence

  Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.28, Vintage

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• Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.

  Ralston Bowles

  Reading, Eye, Eric

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• Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

  Joel Stein

  Clouds, Luxury Hotels, Blue

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Sound, Taiwan, Flavor

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• Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Self, Meditation

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• Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

  Chris Murray

  Discipline, Moments, That Moment

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• We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Trying, Arms

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• You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

  Babyface

  Moving, Fans, Moving Forward

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• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  Gayle King

  Memories, Dad, Party

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• I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  World, Used, Right Time

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• I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Pieces, World

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• I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

  Bryan Cranston

  Reading, Thinking, Play

  "Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad's craziest season and what's next". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

  James Iha

  Fans, Ends, Stills

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• I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

  Kristen Stewart

  Desire, Looks, World

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• Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Reading, Brain, Process

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Grew Up, Grew, Knows

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.

  Phil McGraw

  Believe, Monitoring

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

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• I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Cds, Car

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

  Rod Stewart

  Boys, Trying, Stories

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• I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Movement, Punk

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• Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

  William Hague

  Children, Dirty, Thinking

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

  Stanley Crouch

  Father, Racism, People

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• Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.

  Byron York

  Taken, Night, Years

  "Obama's disconnected, out of touch, in denial State of the Union" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. January 21, 2015.

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• After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Self

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.85, Hachette UK

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