Listening Quotes - Page 40

• I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

  Steven Spielberg

  Running, Thinking, Watches

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Men, Thinking, Voice

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

  Garth Brooks

  Song, Getting Older, Might

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

  Richard Simmons

  Emotional, Who I Am, People

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

  Susan RoAne

  Good Conversation, Good Listener, Listeners

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• In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.

  Nancy Mairs

  Communication, Practice, Arms

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

  Randy Pausch

  Important, Matter, Size

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• Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Talking, People, Stories

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

  Michael Rost

  Synchronicity, Seeking, Speakers

  Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.4, Routledge

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• Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

  Michael Rost

  Creating, Process, Speakers

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• Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

  Michael Rost

  Mind, Speakers

  Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.3, Routledge

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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  Eddie Murphy

  Growing Up, Groups, Stuff

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• Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Daughter, School, Cds

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• I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, People, Black

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• I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Country, Rocks, Houston

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• For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

  Jena Malone

  Children, Actors, Matter

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• I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

  Robert Herjavec

  Important, Letters, Alphabet

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• Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

  Reid Scott

  Acting, Attention, Ifs

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• Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Attention, Levels

  "Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice". Book by Robert Fink, 2005.

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• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  Sam Trammell

  Iphone, Car, Radio

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• Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

  J. D. Pardo

  Passion, Music Is, Always Learning

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• Listening is an important key to HEARING.

  Joyce Meyer

  Keys, Important, Hearing

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• There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesome. I would love to sing that.' It's this weird karaoke fantasy that I might someday get to live out on the big screen.

  Skylar Astin

  Thinking, Would Be, Radio

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Air, Space, Judging

  "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann". Book by Matthias Beier, 2004.

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