“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.” HumansHas BeensStoriesCultureGirlHuman BeingsHistoryOur LivesListeningFemaleImportanceTreatedStorytellingGossipIgnoredDiscouragedSeriousnessMarginalized Author:Gloria Steinem
“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentStoriesUseTurnsLanguageGrowsHuman BeingsAbilityGrowing UpListeningCreaturesComplexesBeing DifferentEloquent Author:Flemming Rose
“Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.” HumansIdeasHuman BeingsBehindsListeningHopefullyConsumersMeant To BeWithin YouConsumption Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.” NeedsHumansLife IsUnderstandingHuman BeingsDesignListeningSpeechUnderstoodEssenceAim Author:Richard Saul Wurman
“Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.” KnowsHumansSometimesSongHuman BeingsListeningLove PoetryJustin Author:Maya Angelou
“I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsHumansHeartDifferentEnoughHuman BeingsComedyListeningConversationFaultsSeekingDrunkIntimatePretendingNeuroticHeadphonesBridesmaidsEnough Already Author:Greg Proops
“I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.” ThinkingWayTryingHumansReasonLightPastValuesHuman BeingsAudienceRecordsListeningPerformancesShiningNurtureTerrificForgetfulRecent Past Author:Will Oldham
“As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel that's the root of who he is. So I was still and listening to God. All of that came together to really birth this human being known as Ralph Angel.” FeelsHumansStillsWantedTogetherHuman BeingsKnownAliveListeningBirthAngelRootsListening To God Author:Kofi Siriboe
“Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.” HumansCan DoHuman BeingsBehindsListeningRadioMiserableAwardsCeremonyAttendingAward Ceremonies Author:Arthur Smith
“My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.” HumansHumanityReadingHuman BeingsStruggleSeeingConditionsPaintingListeningHorizonOperaHuman ConditionBlack History Author:Wole Soyinka
“Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.” YearsHumansMomentsAgeLastsDesireNightPassionBornHuman BeingsSilenceChildhoodListeningOld AgeUncertainLifelongMomentaryFlux Author:C. S. Lewis