Quotes About Listener

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

as efficient as communications' mechanisms become, they are still, as they have always been, subject to the overwhelming tendency for entropy to increase, for information to leak in transit, unless certain external agents are introduced to control it. I have already referred to an interesting view of language made by a cybernetically-minded philologist—that speech is a joint game by the talker and the listener against the forces of confusion.

He heard an eery, dry whispering whose source and distance he could not at once determine. Sometimes it seemed at his very ear, and then it ebbed away as if sinking into profound subterranean vaults. But the sound, though variable in this manner, never ceased entirely; and it seemed to shape itself into words that the listener almost understood: words that were fraught with the hopeless sorrow of a dead man who had sinned long ago, and had repented his sin through black sepulchral ages.

Was that what made him a European? To want to have his story told once more, passed down the line to another eager listener who would, in his time, disregard its lesson and repeat his own suffering? Ah, how he loved tradition.

Ahora tú debes decidir si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.

Muchacha, te contaré algo: el mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cmbio... se viven. ¿Entiendes? (...) Ahora tú debes decidir (...) si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia

El oyente de mente embotada no tiene ninguna intención verdadera de investigar la Palabra ni de crecer. Sólo le gusta tener la seguridad de que va a eludir el infierno e ir al cielo.

Radio is truly the most intimate medium of all. For a listener, it can be a cross between access to a party-line and an interior monologue.

The contemporary listener new to old time radio is in for a real treat... when played back it begins its magic and the listener becomes absorbed by the program and spellbound by the power of the imagination. For those listeners who have experienced this often enough, it is almost second nature to describe radio as the "theater of the mind."

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

School was unbelievable," I said. "I kind of, well, sort of, met this amazing girl, and then I set off the fire alarm during an assembly—" Okay, that's not what I really said, but it wouldn't have mattered if I did. Bear's not exactly a good listener.

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.

I can't live without Radio 4. It's worth the entire licence fee. I'm an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when 'Thought for the Day' starts, as that's a step too far.

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

But she's—she's really not much of a person. She never says much. She never makes any effort socially or any other way.

The best of the old stories spoke to the listener because they spoke not just to the ears but to the heart as well.

The best teacher... inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Vocal music is considered to be the highest, for it is natural; the effect produced by an instrument which is merely a machine cannot be compared with that of the human voice. However perfect strings may be, they cannot make the same impression on the listener as the voice which comes direct from the soul as breath, and has been brought to the surface through the medium of the mind and the vocal organs of the body.

Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.

I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener.

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.