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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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"A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!"
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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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"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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"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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"When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening."
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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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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
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"Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say."
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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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"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."
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"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
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"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
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"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."
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"To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed."
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"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."
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"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great."
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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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"The ears and the heart are connected, it's true,for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too."
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"All of my style came from listening to records."
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"I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it."
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"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
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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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"I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records."
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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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"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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"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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"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week."
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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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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
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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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"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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"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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"I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak."
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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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