Listening Quotes - Page 22

• Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

  Mario Cuomo

  Honesty, Reflection, Thoughtful

  Mario Cuomo (2012). “Reason to Believe”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

  Jane Siberry

  Thinking, Wonderful, Grew Up

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• I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, Audience, No Idea

  "Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest - for two minutes'" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2010.

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• Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Powerful, Real

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• Welcome to RAW is Jericho! And I was just listening to your list of problems and grievances that you have with all my Jerichoholics, and I have a solution - and that solution is to SHUT THE HELL UP. But finally, Al Snow, tomorrow people WILL be acknowledging you - they WILL be talking about the greatest moment of '99 - they'll be talking about the night that Al Snow was brutally beaten by the Ayatollah of Rock n Rolla.

  Chris Jericho

  Night, Wwe, Rocks

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• Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

  The Miz

  Wwe, Oil, Singing

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• After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard

  Rick Santelli

  Government, America, People

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• My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Dad, New Orleans, Play

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• He was listening so I don't remember.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra, Remember

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Mind, Movement

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Voice, Ego

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  Patty Duke

  Rolling, Sitting, Stones

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• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

  Andre Gide

  Memorable, People, Going Away

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• Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!

  Sailor Jerry

  Tattoo, Running, People

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• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  Natalia Kills

  Secular Music, Teens, Made

  "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.

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• Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.

  Jude Bijou

  Connections, Strengthening, Persons

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• One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Editors, Mistress

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.43, Marcel Proust

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• To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thrones, Ifs, Powerless

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

  Meg Greenfield

  Sleep, Self, Talking

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• Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

  Bill Maher

  Fire, Community, Gathering

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

  Howard Gordon

  Practice, Promise, Stories

  "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

  Robert Breault

  People, Attention

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