Listening Quotes - Page 23

• If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

  Robert Breault

  Answers, Fewer, Asks

  16 Copy quote

• The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

  Robert Breault

  People, Looks, Way

  5 Copy quote

• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

  7 Copy quote

• Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Reading, Talking

  16 Copy quote

• To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Problem, Problem Solving

  5 Copy quote

• Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

  A. S. Byatt

  People, Age, Used

  4 Copy quote

• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Art, Italian, Turkeys

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2141, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

  Tracy Chapman

  People, Swapping, Way

  9 Copy quote

• Give us grace to listen well.

  John Keble

  Giving, Grace, Wells

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.64

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Important, May

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

  Alistair Cooke

  America, People, Radio

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

  George Washington Carver

  Enough, Ifs

  21 Copy quote

• It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Cutting, Hair, Hunters

  6 Copy quote

• People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

  Jane Wagner

  Sex, People, Needs

  11 Copy quote

• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  Jay Baruchel

  Sports, Drama, Reading

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

  Carter Burwell

  Film

  4 Copy quote

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  Jack Antonoff

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

  Adam Brody

  Worry, Want, Wonder

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Records, Bedroom

  6 Copy quote

• When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

  Katy B

  Real, America, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

  Roberto Benigni

  Moving, Writing, Sound

  15 Copy quote

• I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

  Stephanie Beacham

  People, Ears, Too Much

  7 Copy quote

• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Growing, Hearing

  "Tammy Baldwin launches" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 06, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

  Eliza Coupe

  Kids, Play, Piano

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

  Kim Coates

  Waiting, Doe, Cry

  4 Copy quote