Quotes with listening

  • Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
  • Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
  • Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
  • Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
  • One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
  • Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
  • I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
  • My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Benny Green Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Boy George An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Marlon Brando An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
    The Observer (1956)
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Harriet Lerner Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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  • Robert Montgomery Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 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 medita
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • A. A. Milne Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bob Graham During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Walter Matthau I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
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  • Imelda Marcos I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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