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Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... — Jesse Ventura

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her. — Nimrat Kaur

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk. — Jackson Beck

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening. — Marge Piercy

He gasped. "Jesus, Jessie, aren't you listening to me? I love you more than roaches love sticky buns. — Catherine Bybee

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers. — Lee Child

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true. — Michael Wilbon

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. — Justin Trudeau

Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting. — Matt Haig

Hearing without listening is like seeing without a vision — Thabiso Monkoe

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy. — Elizabeth Scott

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event. — Leonard Gardner

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers

I'll not stop being your teacher just because you've stopped listening. — Pierce Brown

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell

I can never watch you die again," I cried as tears streaked down my cheeks and fell onto him "I cannot do it. Are you listening? — Courtney Cole

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people. — Philip Selway

I like driving around town and listening to new records. — Hunter Hayes

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. — Stephanie Perkins

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us. — Sherry Turkle

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. — Mother Teresa

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. — Kristen Wiig

Which is this magical listening station, whereupon all musical worth is decided? — Sarah Dessen

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening! — Marlon Brando

[He]talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. — Barry M. Goldwater

Silent is an anagram of listen. — Johnny Rich

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. — Muriel Spark

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. — John James Audubon

I have spent half of my life listening to someone else talk about God. Because of this history, I've developed something of an immunity to sermons. — Jen Hatmaker

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story. — Zora Neale Hurston

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth. — John Kasich

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. — Moby

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that. — Roger Stone

No. They believe we're dumb animals. And they won't contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears. — Ursley Kempe

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. — Tom Peters

Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening. — Ellen F. Davis

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music. — LaMarr Woodley

Helping begins with listening. — Gloria Steinem

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. — Cynthia Ozick

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs. — Thalia Zedek

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Tell me you're truth. I'm listening. — Truth Devour

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard M. Baruch

All night, my face next
to your mouth, I hold my breath,
listening to yours. — Imtiaz Dharker

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline. — Peter Drucker

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'."
"Highlands" from "Time Out of Mind" (1997) — Bob Dylan

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family. — Gautama Buddha

When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it. — Billie Joe Armstrong

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read. — S.E. Hinton

Unless the radio is on, I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do. — Leona Lewis

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen. — Robert K. Greenleaf

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

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger

There's a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively. — John C. Maxwell

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish. — Terry Pratchett

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it ... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it. — Seth Godin

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers. — Robert Breault

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home ... : reading by the fireside ... Listening to music. — Salvador De Madariaga

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too. — George Harrison

I like to share my thoughts after watching/reading or listening to something... after all you could get with amazing thoughts. — Deyth Banger

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent. — Ian MacKaye

For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first! — Meredith Duran

Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first. — Michele Jennae

She closed her eyes, listening to the sound of his heartbeat. She always found its rhythm comforting. — Sylvain Reynard

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always. — George Will

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour. — David Luiz

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you. — Tim Gunn

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone. — John Bruna

Take advantage of social listening tools such as Social Mention and TweetDeck to listen to consumer conversations about your brand. — Liam Brady

When students practice good classroom listening skills, these also become useful life skills. — Michael S. Lawson

You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier. — S.M. Stirling

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship. — Brian Tracy

To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! — Frederic Chopin

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep. — Ellie Goulding

Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know. — Rumi

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening. — Veronica Purcell

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening. — Evan Esar

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau

Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right. — Elon Musk

I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that's just something people say when they're too lame to go to live shows. — Becky Albertalli

I'm always listening to music to pump myself up. — Bella Heathcote

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense. — Sue Grafton

I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian. — Stjepan Hauser

Listen that you may live. — Isaiah

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music. — Luciano Berio

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. — Steve Lacy

Just by listening without looking I can tell you is it a white man singing or black.... as far as now is easy! — Deyth Banger

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. — Chuck Mangione

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite. — Blake Shelton

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. — Michael Bennett