Explore Quotes on Listening

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

O Lord my God, _x000D_tell me what you are to me. _x000D_Say to my soul, _x000D_I am your salvation. _x000D_Say it so that I can hear it. _x000D_My heart is listening, Lord; _x000D_open the ears of my heart _x000D_and say to my soul, _x000D_I am your salvation. _x000D_Let me run toward this voice _x000D_and seize hold of you. _x000D_Do not hide your face from me: _x000D_let me die so that I may see it, _x000D_for not to see it would be death to me indeed.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can’t sing,I can always continue listening to it.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.