Quotes About Listening

When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.

If I'm tired one day, then I'll take the day off instead of pushing through it, because then that's when you hurt yourself.

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I find the world of podcasts very interesting because it truly puts the audience's visualisation into action. Each and every person listening to it can create their own stories in their minds, with the help of the voice they are listening to.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.

In the wake of the San Francisco scene, ears were alive. It was a listening generation.

I've heard that babies cry all the time early on, which I'm fine with. But in my free time, I'm pretty sure I'll want to listen to something else.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.