Listening Quotes - Page 35

• Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

  Errol Morris

  People, Important, Looks

  "Predilections". Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 6, 1989.

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• You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

  "The Eleven-Minute Psychiatrist". Interview with James Hughes, Stop Smiling Magazine, www.errolmorris.com. March 2006.

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• There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

  China Mieville

  Death, Knowing, Doors

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• A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Strong, Cutting, Opposites

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• Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

  Joey Comeau

  Hate, Calm, I Hate

  "It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry". Book by Joey Comeau, "Where Are You Off To Now?" story, 2007.

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• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  George Gamow

  Waiting, Sitting, Exciting

  "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado, April 25, 1968.

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• It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

  Saul Gorn

  Talking, Can Do

  "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés" by Saul Gorn, University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, (p. 11), repository.upenn.edu. March 1992.

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Needs

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals and people, which is against the spirit of Islam. While I stand by the truths that he spoke, I must condemn in the strongest terms the manner in which those truths were represented.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mean, People, Islam

  "Farrakhan Repudiates Speech For Tone, Not Anti-Semitism" by Steven A. Holmes, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 1994.

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• Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Ignorance, Today, Scientist

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

  DJ Quik

  School, Culture, Enjoy

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on

  Andy Townsend

  Games, Radio

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• I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

  Fabio Capello

  Intelligent, Player, Media

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  Barry Hannah

  Gratitude, Believe, Writing

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• Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, News, Scientist

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• Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.

  David Letterman

  Iowa, People, Cost

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• Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Obamacare, Yesterday, People

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• The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Doe, Savages

  "Credo". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke (1991), later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998" (p. 360), 1990.

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• A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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• Listen first and never stop listening.

  Dave Kerpen

  Firsts

  FaceBook post by Dave Kerpen from Sep 26, 2013

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• While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Party, Feet

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• My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Musical, Rama

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• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

  Sean O'Casey

  Book, Thinking, Artist

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• I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang.

  Peter Chapman

  Soccer, Football, Hate

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