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“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

Author:Tinie Tempah

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Ends Inspiration Waiting Sound Awareness Listening Mindfulness Hearing Spending Guides Genuine Strings Pulling Through The Eyes Listen To Yourself Genuineness

Author:Howard Thurman

“For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.”

Ifs Trying Made School Wonder Listening Tunes Songwriting Songwriters

Author:Tom Waits

“Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.”

Ifs Want Kids Today Moving Space Wonder Listening Flying Sheets Listening To Music Cds Dinosaurs Kicking Audio Kicking It Flintstones

Author:will.i.am

“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”

Ifs Way Sound Deals Music Cutting Listening Ego Ears Musical Refuse Developing

Author:John Cage

“If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.”

Ifs Listening Tired If I Could

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.”

Ifs Guy Actors Talking Listening

Author:Marlon Brando

“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.”

Ifs World Heart Break Listening Awake Heart Break Poignant Evermore Beauty Of The World

Author:Andrew Harvey

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

“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.”

“If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.”

Ifs Feels Grows Sun Listening Dare Soulmate

Book:The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.”

Ifs Knows Soul Dies Fire Rocks Arms Listening Kissing Lays Beloved Curse Crush What If Within You Skulls

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.”

People Ifs World Way Heart Mean Persons Whole Felt Realizing Millions Talent Particular Broken Listening Whole World Mysterious Spokes Replaced Unimportant Windowpane

Author:Michael Ende

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Persons Said My Own Doubt Humour Listening My Way

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar

“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

People Ifs Hands Community Simple Building Listening Hero Ordinary Leap Tall Boots Heroism Rescue Bullets Ordinary People Superpower Bruised Capes Tall Buildings

Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

Ifs Might Listening Walking Prophecy

Book:Bodies of Work: Essays

Source: Bodies of Work: Essays

“If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”

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