#listener

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#else #good #listener #something #thinking

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#everywhere #good #knows #listener #only

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#audience #encourage #everyday #everyday life #laughter

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#coming #compromises #doing #express #listener

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#aware #become #danger #experience #get

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#good #like #listeners #precious #treasured

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal