#listening

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#brady #bunch #express #five #get

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

I just love listening to the laughter. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#just #laughter #listening #love

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#days #i #i can #instance #intentionally

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#earth #hard #listening #most #most powerful

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. ↗

— Lou Reed

#best #compass #else #i #idea

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#five #floor #four #headphones #i

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#exercising #hearing #hiking #i #like

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#listening #make #more #much #observation