Quotes About Listening

You can't fake listening. It shows.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Few people in the industry, or even in the inside your father's organization, know it, but today Mike Koyama, as a creative artist, is a totally artificial being. To maintain our standing with the listening public, however, we need a human figurehead.

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

1) Remain silent you share of the time (more rather than less). 2) Be attentive while others are talking. 3) Say what you think but be careful not to hurt others' feelings. 4) Avoid topics not of general interest. 5) Say little or nothing about yourself personally, but talk about others there assembled. 6) Avoid trying to instruct. 7) Speak in as low a voice as will allow others to hear.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

Inquiétant, non, un homme qui ne dit rien. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez constaté, mais quand un homme ne dit rien alors que tout le monde parle, on n'entend plus que lui! Redoutable !

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

People who are elected by the people need to remember they need to listen to the people.

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

I don't really document how many calories I eat or anything like that. I try to listen to my body.

I met my wife in music camp. She's got great ears, and we have a relationship where she's not afraid to tell me anything. If something's going on in my playing, she will tell me about it, and that's very, very important.

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

I've always found when I was captain when other people were doing the talking for me, I didn't need to say as much, and when I did say one or two things, people tended to listen all the more.

I've learnt a lot about Dad from going around the world and listening to other people. Whether I've been in Australia, the Caribbean, Leeds, Scarborough or London there's always someone who's got a story about him.

I have some songs on 'Tha Carter V,' but if I hear a song five times, I don't like it no more.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

I think it's very cathartic to have someone to talk to.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.