Quotes on Listening

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

Author: Tom Araya

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Author: Abu Bashir

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Author: Polly Berends

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.

Author: Sean Booth

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

Author: Garth Brooks

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.

Author: Craig Bruce

All of my style came from listening to records.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Author: George Carlin

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Author: Albert Ellis

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

Author: Grandmaster Flash

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

Author: Kathy Griffin

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

Author: Juliana Hatfield

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Author: Seamus Heaney

Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

Author: Kin Hubbard

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

Author: Wanda Jackson

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Author: Franklin Jones

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

Author: Florence Joyner

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Author: Stephen King

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

Author: Milan Kundera

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Author: Fran Lebowitz

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

Author: Arto Lindsay

I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

Author: LaToya London

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Author: Mike Lowry

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Author: Imelda Marcos

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

Author: Reba McEntire

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Author: Bryant McGill

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

Author: Donella Meadows

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

Author: Thurston Moore

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Author: Itzhak Perlman

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Author: Bernadette Peters

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

Author: Robert Quine

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Author: Ruggiero Ricci

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Author: Kevin Richardson

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Author: Dean Rusk

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

Author: Jessica Savitch

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Author: Jill Scott

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

Author: Kathleen Sebelius

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Author: Charles Stanley

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Author: James Stephens

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Author: David Thewlis

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Author: Frankie Valli

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Author: Bill Watterson

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Author: Raquel Welch

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

Author: Margaret Wheatley

It's hard listening to myself.

Author: Meg White

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

Author: Lee Womack

True wisdom is not just knowing what to say, but when to listen.

Author: Victoria Palmer

True wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to listen with your heart.

Author: Cassandra Clarke

The greatest act of kindness is simply to listen with empathy.

Author: Jasmine Garcia

Listen carefully; even the quietest voices carry the weight of wisdom.

Author: Sophia Williams

Sometimes the most fruitful conversations are the ones where we listen more than we speak.

Author: Emma Thompson

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand, we listen to reply.

Author: Brian Mercer

The true mark of wisdom is knowing when to listen and when to speak.

Author: Sam White

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Author: Rachel Andrews

Wisdom is knowing when to listen, experience is knowing when to speak.

Author: Julia Smith

The only way to truly understand someone's struggles is by walking a mile in their shoes, not just listening to their stories.

Author: Emma Smith

The only way to truly understand someone is to listen with not just your ears, but with your heart

Author: Samantha Jones

Do not listen with the intent to reply, but with the intent to understand.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Wisdom is a treasure chest only opened by those willing to truly listen.

Author: Sophia Adams

Wisdom is not just knowing when to speak, but also when to listen.

Author: Elena Martinez

Wisdom is not obtained through silence, but rather by listening with an open heart and critical mind.

Author: Amanda Johnson

Strength comes from within, but wisdom comes from listening to others.

Author: Sarah Chen

The universe whispers wisdom to those who listen with their hearts.

Author: Luna Nightingale

The greatest wisdom comes from listening to both the whispers of the wind and silence of your heart.

Author: Sophia Tran

Every good conversation starts with listening more than speaking.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Wisdom is not just in knowing what to say, but in knowing when to listen.

Author: Samantha Kim

Wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen.

Author: Anna Lopez

Do not listen with the intent to reply, but with the desire to understand.

Author: Stephen Covey

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind, and when to listen to others.

Author: Sophia Brown

A wise person knows that there is more to learn from listening than speaking.

Author: Maya Angelou

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Author: Stephen Covey

To understand, you must first listen deeply, not just with your ears, but with your heart.

Author: Maya Angelou

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to pretend we did

Author: David Chillingworth

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to undrerstand, we listen to reply

Author: Stephen Covey

Sometimes the best way to lead is with a little laughter and a lot of listening.

Author: Jamie Ramos