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There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.
Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.
You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"
My buddy Tom... he'd been chasing a girl for two years, and he got her the old-fashioned way - dates and listening.
If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.
'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain.
When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.
Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.
Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn’t listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.
Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.
Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.
I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.
Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.