It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.
The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah. "
God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.
If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.
I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. . . I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.
Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.
What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
