Effective communication is not only about speaking - listening is a key element too. And being an active and good listener is quite an acquired trait. And as proof of your listening abilities, you must be able to give feedback on whatever you’ve heard (everyone has opinions!) or else be able to explain, either in the same words or in your own, exactly what you heard. And this means thinking twice about what you heard before you decide to speak up. Confused already? Don't worry, read the following listening quotes to get more insights!
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Listening Quotes
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A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
 Robert Brault |
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath |
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I saw the devastation and I wanted to help. People need to know that ... we are here for them. They need words of encouragement and to know that everything is going to be OK.
John Williams |
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Augustus |
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
Milan Kundera |
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You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael |
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Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett |
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix |
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall |
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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum |
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
Spike Milligan |
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg |
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
Elvis Costello |
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams |
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman |
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Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
Adam Sandler |
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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.
Alice Cooper |
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young |
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph |
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I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
Robbie Williams |
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Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith |
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I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
Robert Smith |
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Christina Aguilera |
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop |
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Bono |
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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
Seamus Heaney |
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We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes |
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater |
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos |
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy |
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May |
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It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
Miles Davis |
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Lance Armstrong |
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I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
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I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.
Larry David |
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
Orson Scott Card |
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman |
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
Carlos Santana |
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When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a long time for me.
Carlos Santana |
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
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At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
Celine Dion |
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Lewis Thomas |
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I don't listen to my own music at home.
Celine Dion |
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner |
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Yeah right, no matter what were air tight, so when you hear something make sure you hear it right.
Sean John Combs |
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Have fun and listen to hip-hop and still have God in your life, without being overbearing, without being preachy.
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One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed |
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Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon |
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon |
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hear ted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
Jason Mraz |
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When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year.
Chris Cornell |
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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess |
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson |
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson |
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical
Ben Harper |
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Margaret J. Wheatley |
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Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.
Brad Paisley |
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I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
Brandon Boyd |
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how
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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
Enya |
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I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Tim Robbins |
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You just try to give them a little piece of the United States, and tell them that we all support them and love them, no matter what they hear.
Toby Keith |
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“I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.”
Brandon Boyd |
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
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I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
John Frusciante |
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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
Alice Cooper |
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes |
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Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
Tryon Edwards |
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger |
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I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
Star Jones |
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If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch MTV and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.
Lewis Black |
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I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.
Keith Urban |
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I like listening to good music-and I can't stop playing my album.
Robbie Williams |
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