Oscar Wilde Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Listening Quotes

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Passion Quotes , Listening Quotes

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

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Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

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It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.

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Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

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Mostly by [listening to] Green Day. I listened to music a little bit before I had heard of them, but after I'd heard of them, I knew music was my calling. I listened to it all day, and I loved it so much that I wanted to be a part of it, so I worked on being in a band from there.

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Tags : Agent M Quotes , Listening Quotes , Band Quotes

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Wise Quotes , Listening Quotes

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

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Tags : Alan Vega Quotes , Blow Quotes , Listening Quotes

During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Silence Quotes , Listening Quotes

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Listening Quotes , Foundation Quotes

The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Listening Quotes , Speak Quotes

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Listening Quotes

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Listening Quotes

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Song Quotes , Listening Quotes