Quotes with listening

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  • Beverly Sills So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Bobby Hatfield Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll.
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  • Martin Luther Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
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  • Beth Ditto Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Campbell Newman The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Benny Green The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Anna Quindlen The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Branford Marsalis The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Brenda Blethyn The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Joan Didion The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Simon Sinek There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anne Northup There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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