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You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.
By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
Who said I was wise? I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.
In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.
Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi
Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.
I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.
No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.
I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.
Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.
I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.
I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.
I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.