#listening

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. ↗

— Slash

#aerosmith #black #black sabbath #came #cheap

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important. ↗

— Wess Stafford

#caring #children #listening #negative-influence #postive-influence

Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness--the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world." From Breena quoting her mother in Bitter Frost ↗

— Kailin Gow

#hiding-our-inner-desires #listening-to-inner-self #dreams

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#listening #strong #life

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friendship #gentle #listening #reaching-out #sheltered

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#listening #music #philosophy #imagination

I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are... ↗

— Betty Berzon

#love #love

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#change

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#problems

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