Best listening & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.”

Needs Humans Persons Language Existence Listening Human Needs Transmission Affirming

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”

Thinking Book Life Is Artist Found Language Listening Active Concrete Shelter Towers Ivory Active Life Ivory Tower

Author:Sean O'Casey

“I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.”

Different Language Stuff Crazy Rocks Listening Music Is Hip Hop Pops Rap Hips Hops Ipods Different Languages Techno Bachata

Author:Prince Royce

“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.”

People Way Humans Different Stories Use Turns Language Grows Human Beings Ability Growing Up Listening Creatures Complexes Being Different Eloquent

Author:Flemming Rose

“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

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

Doe Motivational Political Language Freedom Democracy Taken Heard Communication Listening Free Speech Life And Love

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.”

People Thinking Trying Different Used Language Stuff Listening Rap Accents Different Languages

Author:Wyclef Jean

“In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.”

World I Can Seems Happens Language Listening Shifting Reflecting Predictable

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.”

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Author:Masiela Lusha

“I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.”

Thinking Way Made Speak Language Novel Listening Trump Beckett

Author:David Duchovny

“I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.”

Years Art Book Reading Language Lines Results Listening Everyday Philosopher Orthodox Phenomenon Reading Books Privileged Sociology Anthropology Art History Professional Life

Author:David E. Cooper

“I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.”

Thinking Film Language Listening Make Sense

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.”

Thinking Real Age Spiritual Language Religious Existence Listening Politician Music Is Grateful New Age Getting High

Author:Jerry Garcia

“I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in this ancient wisdom that in Arabic culture is often quoted. Those proverbs are such a huge part of the language and parts of people's every day. This is the wisdom that we use in our everyday life but we're not always listening to.”

Culture Language Listening Everyday Ancient Everyday Life

Author:Cherien Dabis

“I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity and instability of meaning partly out of a sense of adventure, to see where that takes me and partly in a whistling past the graveyard kind of way because, of course, sensing stable meaning fall away can be scary.”

Thinking Writing Kind Mean Different Sometimes Past Fall Language Adventure Listening Scary Tension Graveyard Multiplicity Instability

Author:Rae Armantrout

“I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.”

Language Listening Punk Punk Rock Phobia

Author:Gruff Rhys

“My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other signals human beings give out - body language or what Freud graphically called the "betrayal that oozes out of him at every pore," betrayal, that is, of what they really mean. I have that to this day, and it makes conversation exhausting because I'm listening not just to the words of the person in front of me but also to their body. It's as if there are two radio stations on at the same time.”

Giving Mean Language Parent Listening Betrayal This Day Unpredictable Really Mean Body Language

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments

“I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.”

People Speak Language Broken Listening Grew Grew Up Speak English Broken English

Author:Christopher Walken

“Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.”

Inspirational Writing Language Listening

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.”

Source: The Plague

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