#listen

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#drums #funk #groove #heavy #like

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

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Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. ↗

— Anita Hill

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If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. ↗

— Brian Eno

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