All Quotes

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
‐‐ Karl A. Menninger

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.
‐‐ David Hockney

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
‐‐ Brett Ratner

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
‐‐ Carla Bley

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Listening is the essence of anything.
‐‐ David Lyons

Listening is the key to everything good in music.
‐‐ Pat Metheny

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.
‐‐ Margaret J. Wheatley

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers

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

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Listening to Brunello Cucinelli is like getting your own personal tutorial with a very glamorous, fatherly professor. He is charming and solicitous, speaking in an urgent, musical voice. Associates say he is both disciplined and happy, as well as extremely meticulous. When it comes to business, he's known as savvy and calculating.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
‐‐ Ryan White

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.
‐‐ Steve Winwood

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
‐‐ Kaskade

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
‐‐ Jane Asher

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
‐‐ Carmen Agra Deedy

Listening to people keeps them entertained.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
‐‐ LaToya Jackson

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
‐‐ Andra Day

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
‐‐ Nneka

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
‐‐ Errol Morris

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
‐‐ Tena Desae

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
‐‐ David Ives

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
‐‐ Adam Savage

Lists have always implied social order.
‐‐ David Viscott

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
‐‐ Russell Banks

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
‐‐ David Viscott

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.
‐‐ Bill Scott

Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
‐‐ Charles Vest

Literally, I don't have a television. So I don't really know what's happening pop-culturally. I read the 'New York Times.' And there's one worldwide cabin blog that I look at.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.
‐‐ Kelly Reilly

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
‐‐ Sasha Grey

Literally, I kissed a girl, and, like, a week later, she broke up with me. I was like, 'Oh my God, was it that bad?!'
‐‐ Ryan Guzman

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.
‐‐ Emilio Estevez

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann