“I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.” MadeDoneEnoughUsedLostLeftVoiceMy OwnListeningHabitCleanHolesMade ItDamageClimbsIgnoredPencilsListening To MusicSlippingSaturatedOld HabitsVibrancy Author:Gerard Way
“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.” WaySongListeningHabitBirdBest WayPeculiarGave Up Book:Audubon and His Journals Source: Audubon and His Journals
“I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.” IfsHas BeensDangerousListeningDevelopmentHabitConversationIntellectualThings To DoDangerous ThingsDegeneratesIntellectual Development Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.” ListeningHabitConversationUnionsCommunicateIrresistible Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we build organizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our responding intelligently to the challenges we face every day.” MayFacesFormNationsUnderstandingChallengesSpaceEconomyListeningHabitEmpathyOrganizationLaysSurfaceDialogueAssumptionOur ThoughtsRespondingHabitualBeneath The SurfaceChallenges We Face Author:David Bohm
“I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.” PeopleThinkingAsksKnowingTroubleListeningPrayingHabitBlessingMindfulnessAtheistSirensAmbulance Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.” PeopleIfsWantWritingFirstsMeanReadingRecordsJudgingListeningHabitWindowOver ItComprehensionToss Author:Frank Zappa
“God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.” NeedsGivingLyingVoiceLosesSilenceDangerListeningHabitComfortEssentialsAcquireTrue FriendResisting Author:Francois Fenelon
“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.” WayFacesTurnsPayAttentionTelevisionListeningHabitComputerContraryFixedRoutineOutletsRespectfulViewpointsTurn OffDown Time Author:Deepak Chopra
“As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.” TryingFallBreakListeningHabitMusicianConscious Author:Jerry Garcia
“I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.” IfsBelieveHumansWellsMayI CanSelfOpportunityInterestingClassSacrificeHuman NatureListeningHabitCircumstancesSickIntelligentInstanceFollyAttachmentHeroismVolumeFortitudeChamberMost InterestingResignationArdentGreat OpportunityDisinterestedAnne Elliot Author:Jane Austen
“[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.” MayStoriesShowsMightHeardBrokenListeningHabitTerriblePagesPossessionMapsPeterHookNeverlandEavesdroppingPrized Possessions Author:Geraldine McCaughrean