Quotes About Listening

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan to help balance it out.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

When you spend almost two years out talking to people, praying with them, and really finding out some of those tough issues that are impacting them, it makes a lasting impression on you.

I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Being a salesperson prepares you for just about everything in business: how to listen, empathize, and persuade; when to back off and when to step in; and, of course, how to close.

I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.

President Trump has had business leaders at the table. He's listening; he's engaging and making decisions that will help us grow the economy and, ultimately, U.S. manufacturing jobs.

President Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children and the screams of this nation.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

I have a pretty good ear.