Quotes About Listening

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.

Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

I have been in a unique position to hear from players and staff members about the issues they and their families have had to encounter.

My whole process is based on meditation as well as listening really closely to what the director says and what the choreographer says. I try to stay in the immediate present reality with my partners on stage, give and take reality.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

It's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for instead of trying to listen and understand what's going on.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

While most men don't have first-hand experience with gender-based discrimination, we can still be powerful allies for advancing women's rights. We need to do a better job of listening to women and standing up for what's right, even when it's not popular or comfortable.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"

A fearful man is always hearing things.

A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.