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  • Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

    M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House
  • Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

  • I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.

    "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

  • Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

    Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press
  • God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

    "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.
  • We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

  • No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

    Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book
  • Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

  • Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

    Life   Music   Beautiful  
  • Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

    "The Best Career Advice From 2014 Commencement Speeches" by Jill Jacinto, www.businessinsider.com. May 23, 2014.
  • Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

    Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin
  • Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  • The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

    Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin
  • A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

    Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)
  • Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

    Art   Book   Ideas  
    "Tori Amos on Lauren Bacall, religion, and cleaning latrines". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2015.
  • I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

    Book   Reading   Thinking  
  • There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

  • There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.

    "Janet Jackson– Janet in control". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 1, 2010.
  • In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

    Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business
  • Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.

    "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

    Funny   Wisdom   Truth  
    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
  • Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.

  • Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.

    Peter Kreeft (1990). “Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer”, p.34, Ignatius Press
  • I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear... I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

    "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.
  • The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

    Twitter post from Aug 23, 2014
  • If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

    Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”
  • Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

    Love   Attitude   Healing  
  • Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

    "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.
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