Quotes About Listening

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start.

The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what's wrong and how to fix it. It's just that their voices aren't being heard. I listen for words, tonality, and language.

If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.

As an outsider, you observe what everyone is saying. Insiders are sometimes too insulated, listening to voices in their own little group.

We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the heart of what's being said, what you as a reader or listener are being asked to feel or notice.

My priority has always been listening and understanding the voices of those I represent, and I work every day to address the concerns people have for their families.

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

I hate listening to things quietly. If I'm going to listen to something and fully enjoy it, I want the volume all the way up. That, for me, is a good immersive experience.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

I consume a lot of podcasts. I'm a voracious podcast consumer.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

It's about going to where your voters are.

It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

You've got to get out and talk to voters, and you've got to let them know who you are. Talk with them, listen to them, and let them know how you're going to fight for them.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

Abduction was what it felt like on first listening to Public Enemy. Like the post-punks, Public Enemy implicitly accepted the idea that a politics which came reassuringly dressed in established forms would be self-defeating.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.