Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
I do find that if I go out for a meal I can be listening to a few conversations at once all around me. It can drive my partner bonkers a little bit. But it's about being able to tell a lot of very different stories as well as you can and I do genuinely love what I do.
Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.
I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.
The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.
Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?. . . then I dissect it.
Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England. ' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
I love to work out and really enjoy the outdoors. I like to immerse myself with sport-related activities and spending quality time with people. I find people to be very inspiring, and I get a lot of motivation from listening and interacting with them, sharing stories and similarities - and differences - in our lives, and learning from each other.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.