Quotes About Listening

If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.

I listen to the Mars Volta and Fiona Apple every day. I feel if you do write music, you write what you listen to, and you couldn't possibly write in another genre. So those are the two that I usually use.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

It's always a consistent approach of trying to get better, listening and learning from everybody else, and then that will help you become a better leader.

Any show should be open to listening to constructive criticism.

If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship.

We need to listen to consumers' needs.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn't be right for me.

I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

Whether it's leaders from my own town of Braddock or leaders across the state in Bucks County or Adams County, I'm committed to always working with and listening to local elected leaders.

The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government to listen to us and they haven't.

Listening to the people I serve is a critical component of any legislative effort.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.