#listen

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. ↗

— John Powell

#know #listener #speaker #truly #wants

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#heard #listened #want

It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#almost #completely #could #feel #go

We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives. ↗

— Charlotte Rae

#listen #lives #marvelous #music #operas

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#broad #cable #cars #city #excitement

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#beef #called #career #director #doing

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#almost #bengali #classical #classical music #european

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awakening #awareness #enabling #fall #fascination