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“Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.”

Ifs Giving Whole Found Listening Mass Saint Harm Perceive Shore Confession Sail Strict Bent Ceremony Cables Sailor Decoration Incense Absolution

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.”

Ifs Two Jobs Waiting Chance Loss Talking Television Listening Singing Lonely Paid Phones Radio Determined Stations Cents Saddest Two Cents Television And Radio

Author:Barbara Holland

“When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.”

“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Said Mother Desire Listening Ears Bottom Lasting True Words

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.”

Ifs Should Believe Feelings Our Lives Listening Honor Folks Who We Are Headings

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.”

Ifs Persons Asks Listening Shy Shy Person

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.”

People Ifs I Can Speak Imagine Doors Listening Gossip Tiresome

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”

Ifs Should Humans Heart Inspiration Would Be Sea Listening Ocean Draws Infinite Shells Human Heart Hollow Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.”

Ifs Way Wells Kind Important Certain Sound Effects Listening Musician Important Things Conductor

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'”

Ifs Want Firsts Littles Age School Certain Fans Honest Listening Daughter Being Honest Cds Cringe Bad Word

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.”

Ifs Want Country Rocks Listening Grew Grew Up Jazz Pops Really Great Houston Whitney

Author:Natalie MacMaster

“Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.”

Ifs Acting Attention Listening Pay Attention Reacting

Author:Reid Scott

“I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.”

Ifs Car Listening Radio Streams Iphone Downloads Pandora

Author:Sam Trammell

“Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.”

Ifs Way Want Play Moments Might Faces Life Is Lying Song Next Stuff Listening Depends Thousand Comfortable Folks Vary Folk Songs Truth About Life

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.”

Ifs Thinking World Different Use Values Listening

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.”

Ifs Feels Should Stills Feelings Listening Ultimate Bottom My Favorite Casts Albums Guilty This Day Ensemble Feeling Guilty

Author:Corey Taylor

“The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.”

Ifs Knows Way Different Character Might Happens Honest Listening Scene Expected Things Happen Different Directions Improvising

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.”

People Ifs Way Want Looks Lines Ready Listening Speakers End Times Spend Time Nelson

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Book Different Facts Reading Too Much Listening Performing Different Things Tape Irritating

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.”

Ifs Knows Men Kind Sometimes Vision Opinion Audience Seeing Materials Listening Directors Thirds Producers Comedian Wavelength

Author:Steve Martin

“The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.”

People Ifs Two Three Rooms Talking Television Listening

Author:Betty White

“I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.”

Ifs Trying School Listening Bus Listening To Music Cds Batteries

Author:Schoolboy Q

“The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation.”

People Ifs Want Feels Ideas Real Feelings My Own Talking Honest Listening Internet Conversation Entertainment Being Honest Intimate Apartment

Author:Grace Helbig

“Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.”

People Ifs Way Kind Modern Design Listening Stuck Disaster Horrible

Author:Linus Torvalds

“We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.”

Ifs Want Heart Soul Understanding Accepting Lord Steps Listening Lessons Meetings Communicate Offering Resentment Apology Can Not Listening To Others Magnanimity

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.”

People Ifs Helping Suffering Sides Realizing Listening Angry Compassionate Interbeing

Author:Nhat Hanh

“(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Book Secret Education Learning Study Listening Sitting Developing Professors Lectures Notebook Secret Life Orderliness

Author:Stefan Zweig

“I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because of fibromyalgia. Because once you experience real pain you recognize the vibration, the feeling of being healthy, happy and loved. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. I need to do things that feed my soul, like being with people I love, or playing my guitar, or listening to music.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Feels Heart Real Soul Feelings Pain Found One Thing Listening My Heart Healthy Sick Guitar My Soul Listening To Music Vibrations Real Pain Healthy Happy

Author:A. J. Langer

“Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.”

“It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.”

Ifs Wells Asks Games Easy Goal Audience Football Listening Balls Invisible Score Mislead Football Game

Author:Gus Van Sant

“More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.”

Ifs Children Persons Important Care Can Do Building Painting Listening Singing Adults Important Things Dancing Engagement Greatest Gifts Often Is

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.”

Ifs Wells Play Interesting Stage Listening Method Notes Guitar Average Helpful Copies Solo Guitarist Saxophone Guitar Solos

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.”

“I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.”

Ifs Knows Audience Listening Losing Theatre Sitcom Shuffling

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.”

“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Motivational Running Kids Games Dark Rooms Listening Affected Pills Repetitive Electronic Music Dark Room Pacs

Author:Marcus Brigstocke

“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”

“You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Helping Lost Silence Listening Finals Hearing Tunes Exposure Symphony Adagio

Author:Andrew Schneider

“Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in the listening, obeying attitude. If men and women are not willing to assume this listening attitude, there will be no meeting with God in living, personal experience.”

Ifs Men Attitude Willing Listening Men And Women Ideals Assuming Meetings Personal Experiences Obeying Communicators

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.”

Ifs Persons Tvs Listening Phones Radio Fascinated Watching Tv

Author:David Rodigan

“If I had the money, I would love to open up a movie theater that just played images and colors and beautiful music. For me, there's nothing like listening to a beautiful opera sometimes - on a record or seeing it live - just to be sleepy and let those beautiful voices take me somewhere I've never been before.”

Ifs Sometimes Beautiful Voice Records Seeing Color Listening Theater Take Me Opera Sleepy Movie Theater Beautiful Music Beautiful Voice

Author:Peter Stormare

“I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.”

Ifs Moving Perfect Worry Listening Listening To Music Dance Moves

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Records Listening Creating Hot Hip Hop Stealing Versions Hips Hops Creating Music

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

Ifs Real Problem Courses Actors Asks Realizing Ability Acting Talking Fronts Listening Harder Cameras Hardest Assistants Not Talking Retarded

Author:Brett Ratner

“Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you have to react and respond as the character you're trying to play. You have to service the story, and I think improv training has helped with my listening, responding, and my audition technique. It's sounds so silly, but it's true. Because not only do you improvise during the audition, but once you get the part, they'll say, "Throw away everything. Just improv this scene. Do whatever you want." Someone could panic if they're not used to doing something like that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Play Character Stories Used Stuff Sound Materials Listening Scene Training Technique Silly Bunch Panic Auditions Responding Do Whatever You Want Funny Stuff

Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

“To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.”

Ifs Feels Emotion Listening Music Is

Author:Austin Carlile

“That's always disappointed me, to see a guy in the crowd who doesn't look like he's having fun but in general if you just listen to the crowd it sounds like they're having fun. So I don't want to focus on the one guy who's not having fun. And by closing my eyes and just listening, I can't hear that he's not laughing but I can see that he's not laughing.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Eye Guy Fun Sound Laughing Focus Listening Crowds Having Fun Disappointed Closing Just Listen Closing My Eyes

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.”

People Ifs Want Giving Stories Listening Give Me Privilege Storytelling Loud

Author:Sandra Cisneros

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