Listening Quotes - Page 39

• when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Believe, Feelings, Honor

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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• A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

  Martin Scorsese

  Song, Reading, America

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• If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

  Amy Sedaris

  Shy, Persons, Asks

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• I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

  Ethel Smyth

  Doors, People, Gossip

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Letting Go, Prayer, Giving Up

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• Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Country, Rocks, People

  "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, Volume 6, 1983.

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• Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

  Pauline Oliveros

  Hearing

  Pauline Oliveros (2005). “Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice”, p.21, iUniverse

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

  E. M. Delafield

  Two Sides, Pieces, Pennies

  E. M. Delafield (2015). “Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume): Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, Consequences, Tension, The Heel of Achilles & Humbug by the Prolific Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting and The Way Things Are”, p.959, e-artnow

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

  Mary Cantwell

  Music, Hymns, Licking

  Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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• Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Brain

  Joanne Greenberg (1985). “Rites of Passage”, Henry Holt & Company

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• As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Sight, Silence, Surrender

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• I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

  David Letterman

  Rain, Men, Yankees

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• I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

  Teddy Thompson

  Country, Brother, Rocks

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• Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Advice, Important, Want

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.28, Penguin

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• Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Emotional, Impact

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Mirrors, Two, People

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Important, Musician, Sound

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

  Amy Poehler

  Thinking, Talking, Acting

  "How Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, David Wain and Michael Showalter Conducted the Most Perfect Junket Interview Ever". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

  Allison Janney

  Eye, Acting, Actors

  "MINIONS: Allison Janney and Jon Hamm Talk Animation, Their Characters, and More". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

  Courtney Barnett

  Stuff, Wonder, Pops

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for the audience. The audience has to be actively involved. Sometimes, in television, you can get lulled into sleep watching the picture, not listening to what you're hearing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sleep, Thinking, Public Opinion

  "Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'". "Your World with Neil Cavuto,", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2006.

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