#listening

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#daddy #girl #had #him #i

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#big #big difference #conversation #difference #exactly

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#allow #audience #form #four #happen

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#both #god #listening #meditation #piano

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#boom #constantly #ear #frankly #i

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dark #dark side #listening #music #nature

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. ↗

— Prince Harry

#around #being #bit #boring #boring people

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #close #continue #hear #learns

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#any #artist #aware #been #before