Quotes About Listening

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

I love listening to gospel records.

I do listen to more jazz and gospel than anything else, but my ears are still very much open and listening to stuff that comes out. And a lot of times my kids turn me on to stuff.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

In my free time, I read a lot, watch shows, listen to music, cook, write short stories and spend time with my grandchildren.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear... But there is a chance that something... will talk to me from the dark, so I have... to be prepared for that communication, which has happened.

But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.