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It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.
(As a boy) I was listening to Sonny Boy Williamson's (I) records and I would close my eyes and I could visualize myself playing the harp.
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.
Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.
Everybody has to have his own style, his own game. Everybody has to be himself. I'm listening to nobody. I have my own mind, my own heart.
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.
Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.
There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.
Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.
Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.