Quotes About Listening

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

Nowadays, who actually listens to the tracks on an album, anyway?

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.