#listener

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring. ↗

— Casey Kasem

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My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking. ↗

— Diane Keaton

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But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination. ↗

— Diana Krall

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Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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