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Listening Quotes
"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty."
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"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
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"I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through."
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"All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to."
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"I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it."
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"The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment-and the lesson!"
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"To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed."
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"The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual."
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"It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias."
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"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"
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"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
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"Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play."
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"Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying."
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"I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak."
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"I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging."
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"I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it."
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"Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say."
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"I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening."
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"Listening is one thing; however, ACTIVE listening is quite another. The first is a passive act which does not require great involvement, whereas, the latter is a consciously aware and deliberately focused effort to actively participate in the conversation."
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"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."
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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
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"The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too."
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"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."
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"A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar."
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"All of my style came from listening to records."
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"Heed Your Speed. Are you a fast or a slow talker? Be mindful towards the person with whom you are speaking to ensure that your message is being comprehended, understood, and absorbed. If they are listening at a slower rate than you are speaking, disconnect can occur."
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"Smartass Disciple : Master, why you keep telling about the truth? Nobody hears.Master of Stupidity : O Yea. They hear but don't listen. Anyway, no fun in silent."
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"When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening."
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"There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations."
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"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."
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"While others are broadcasting be listening."
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"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker."
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"Active listening is not only a matter of making yourself available to hear someone talk, but it is showing the sender, physically, that you are receiving and understanding their message on all levels."
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"Think about the people in your life with whom you have the most engaging dialogue-the ones who will listen to you and consider your opinions regardless of the topic. They'll stop whatever they are doing to give you their full attention. They become completely present and hear you."
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"Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment."
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