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“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.”

Men Doe Able Form Opinion Painting Judging Listening Ought Faults Refuse Judgement Painting A Picture

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Wells Littles Whole Problem Form Culture Stuff Bits Can Do Television Listening Little Bit Various Australia Accents No Problem American Culture Tricky Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.”

Ifs Mind Stills Bigs Form Meditation Crazy Minutes Listening Twenties Stillness Monkeys Vastness Soulful Monkey Mind

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.”

Home Form Certain Party Identity Changed Listening Scene Direct Connections Musical Techno

Author:Pantha du Prince

“Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.”

“He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.”

Form Natural Son Listening Type Genre Rebellion Natural Forms

Author:Solange Knowles

“Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.”

Art Form Listening Ego Checks Great Art

Author:Clint Eastwood

“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”

World Way Needs Should Form Hours Challenges Half Accepting Teacher Imagine Listening Offers Doctors Inevitable Centre Bureaucracy Filling Utopia Policemen Another World Filling In

Author:Gillian Tett

“Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here.”

Way Different Form Listening Endless Who We Are Shed

Author:Mark Nepo

“The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.”

Art Earth Form Challenges Practice Listening Mysterious Luminous

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“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.”

“The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.”

Way Art Happens Form Rooms Silence Magic Mystery Listening Ears Surprise Following Silence Is Invitations Listening Ear

Author:David Whyte

“I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.”

Writing Art Form Masters Listening Authority Listening To Music

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.”

People Form Speak Difficult Listening Circumstances Assuming Valuable Sermons Impressive Obliged Good Faith Valuable Things

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.”

Feels Art Bigs Form Language Answers Style Listening Complexes Sentences English Language Expressive Interviewers Laconic

Author:Andy Warhol

“Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'”

Trying Form Spirit Waiting Prayer Simple Morning Study Listening Offers Surface Coffee Cups Chairs Classical Music Coffee Cup

Author:Leighton Ford

“English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.”

Whole Problem Form Listening Various Accents No Problem Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Play Shows Form Certain Attention Teach Imagine Teaching Style Listening Complexes Incredibles Rap Melody Syllables Miranda

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.”

Mind I Can Form Asks Watches Willing Ready Listening Crowds

Author:Bill Burr

“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”

Art Form Felt Listening Singing Performances Intimacy Intimate Interpretation Frank

Author:Robert Davi

“If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.”

Ifs Way Form Realizing Lord Seeing Flower Listening Hearing Senses Temples Deities Mantras Incense

Author:George Harrison

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”

Inspirational Form Listening Self Improvement Respect Self Respect Sincere Sincerity Respecting Others Love And Respect Great Respect Listening To Others Love Respect Trust And Respect Effective Listening Being Sincere Trust Respect

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”

Knows Children Long Stories Form Waiting Listening Goes On Holes Storytelling Mice Participation Elders Waiting And Hoping

Book:One Writer's Beginnings

Source: One Writer's Beginnings

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

Inspirational May Form Listening Empathy Memorable Imitation Flattery Flattering Just Listen Listening To Others

Author:Joyce Brothers