#listening

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham) ↗

— Sura Hart

#connection #listen #listening #attitude

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#god #life #listening #mountains #nature

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#bad day #day #doing #enjoyed #ever

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#act #around #caring #compliment #ear

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#pain #silence #beauty

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#consistent #dream #goals #indeed #judgements

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#forward #gotta #i #keep #keep moving

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#enjoy #i #listening #long #play

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. ↗

— Tom Waits

#better #going #gone #hope #like