Barack Obama Quotes, Past 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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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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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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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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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The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

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

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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

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We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

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Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

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Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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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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At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

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Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

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

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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

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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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