Listening Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. (Leo Buscaglia)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. View quote
Jane Goodall
For no syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren. View quote
Henry Taylor
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
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. View quote
Enya
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence. View quote
Thomas Hood
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. View quote
Annette Funicello
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. View quote
John Coleman
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. (Groucho Marx)
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening. View quote
Seneca
Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. View quote
Elvis Costello
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. View quote
A. A. Milne
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. View quote
James Baldwin
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. View quote
Imelda Marcos
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other. View quote
Michael Chabon
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. (Barry Goldwater)
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. View quote
Alice Cooper
An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. View quote
Marlon Brando
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. View quote
Marcus Brigstocke
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. View quote
Bill Watterson