“Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.” NeedsCareReligionCausesIssuesParticularProductsListeningHungerSellingAssuranceEvangelists Author:Barack Obama
“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” AbleInterestingLevelsAttentionParticularListeningAccommodateAmbientAmbient Music Author:Brian Eno
“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.” PeopleKindLongPlayHelpingSpiritValuesStrongTermLeadershipQualityRolesParticularListeningCreatingFemaleIdealsLong TermSpheresEfficientSplitsDominantBeing HumanIntegrationHumaneReconcileAnalyticsAptitudeNegotiatingZestLeadership QualitiesAmbiance Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership
“Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.” GivingFeelsTryingLooksMeanSelfFeelingsMotherSituationGrowingAdviceParticularListeningDaughterAdolescenceThoughts And FeelingsGiving AdviceConspiring Author:Elizabeth Debold
“For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.” KindTwoDifferentStrongEmotionalParticularListeningAspectComposerVery StrongDifferent KindsTchaikovskyStrong Emotional Author:Crispin Glover
“Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.” WorldSometimesUseLosesParticularListeningTypeAverageTendenciesJargonLayman Author:Pharrell Williams
“It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.” IfsThinkingMenMayReligiousVisionParticularHe ManListeningReturnMessagesFellowsSeekingInsightWildernessCommonplace Author:Loren Eiseley
“I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.” ParticularListeningFitExpectationsIdealsListenersCages Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.” ThinkingWritingFactsSchoolStudentsParticularListeningReflection Author:Feist
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldWayHeartMeanPersonsWholeFeltRealizingMillionsTalentParticularBrokenListeningWhole WorldMysteriousSpokesReplacedUnimportantWindowpane Author:Michael Ende