“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.” IfsPlayRunningKidsNightOrderReadingStarsParentSleepRoomsTalkingRocksInformationListeningStonesVoteSickBiggerLoudRollingJournalRock StarMoronRolling StonesTalking Politics Author:Alice Cooper
“During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.” HumansWarChanceInformationListeningColdDeclineCold WarTake A ChanceAggravationHuman IntelligenceTaking Pictures Author:Bob Graham
“I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentFactsFightingClearMediaInformationListeningConclusionJournalismConsumersDifferent WaysReachingGatheringConsuming Author:Gwen Ifill
“Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.” HumansWorstInformationListeningFlowOrganizationPoliceCommunismDevelopingCharacteristicsDevicesStoppingTriggers Author:Lech Walesa
“I think that being in politics, being in leadership should be as much about listening as talking. That's how I think you can get the information and sort of pick up the nuance that will enable you to do the best possible job.” ThinkingShouldJobsTalkingInformationListeningPicksDo The BestNuance Author:Hillary Clinton
“One of my beliefs as a filmmaker is that if you can make somebody laugh, you can make them listen. With laughter, you can get somebody's guard down, you can open them up to listening to you. They don't feel like they're being preached to or talked down to. I think it helps, it makes really hard to understand information a little more accessible and palatable. And at the end of the day, it makes a movie a little more fun. It doesn't feel so heavy handed.” IfsThinkingFeelsLittlesEndsHardHelpingBeliefFunLaughingInformationListeningLaughterHeavyFilmmakerThe End Of The DayAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Morgan Spurlock