“You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.” PeopleGoneLike YouListening Author:Tom Waits
“When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.” IfsFeelsShouldPresidentWalksDoorsLike YouListeningRepublicanDemocratFeel Good Author:William J. Clinton
“With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'” ThinkingKnowsKindMayHardSeemsWantedSchoolRememberFeltPresidentResultsPiecesHeardLike YouListeningTestsBallsHearingTouchingUnbelievableRemember WhenCotton Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensArtHumorFunnyTalkingNiceModernLike YouListeningEuropeTheaterYeahCriticalGermanyAffable Author:Dylan Moran
“I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?” YoungSongLike YouListening Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.” KnowsNeedsSaidRememberFightingActorsSkyLike YouListeningMadExcitedOctoberYelling Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in a spaceship. It feels like you're in 2001 or something like that. It's massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn't sound like me - that's a younger self that didn't know who he was or what he was doing. I can't identify with a nebulous cloud.” KnowsFeelsWellsI CanSelfSoundWiseLike YouListeningScientistCloudsLike MeProducersMassiveEngineersSpaceshipsYounger Self Author:Will Oldham
“I remember watching Romeo + Juliet when I was 14 and listening to the soundtrack. When I hear that soundtrack now, all those emotions come back. It's really beautiful when you're at a certain point in your life where most of the adventure lies ahead of you. And it's a sad thing when you feel like you've lost that. But you can get it back.” FeelsBeautifulRememberLyingCertainLostEmotionAdventureLike YouListeningJulietSoundtracksReally BeautifulSad ThingsRomeo Juliet Author:Lykke Li
“I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsSaidSeemsSchoolTalkingLike YouListeningHigh SchoolGladLoudGuidanceAnnoyingShut UpCounselorOpinionatedGuidance Counselor Author:Jessica Valenti
“Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.” KindTogetherEasyLike YouListening Author:Jillian Hervey
“I'm a grown-up and I'm a creative person so I should try to give something to that and see what I can make with that. And not sit around listening to people be like, 'You really should be on an HBO show. You'd be great on an Amazon series.' You're like, 'Thank you, okay. I don't have any offers.'” PeopleGivingShouldTryingPersonsI CanShowsCreativeLike YouListeningOffersOkaySeriesAmazonCreative PersonHbo Author:Parker Posey
“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.” PeopleWayGivingShowsAbleFrontsWillingLike YouListeningLessonsLogicNotesStatementsSpotsHatsLecturesBabblingBuckminster Fuller Author:Paul Laffoley