“I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsSelfMovingSoundTalkingListeningSmartSelf RealizationRealizationTherapyPaceReactingVery SmartSlower Pace Author:Natalie Maines
“Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this also goes to trust, listening on to campaign trails. Candidates all the time make promises. You know, Marco said," he learned that the American people didn't trust the federal government."” PeopleKnowsSaidGovernmentFightingListeningPromiseCampaignsSecureBordersCandidatesGrantsFederal GovernmentTrailsMarcosAmnesty Author:Ted Cruz
“A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDoeWholeVoiceDecisionBreakGroupsListeningComfortableFindingsCaughtCrowdsThings To DoCaught UpHerdsInner VoiceCool ThingsWorld Life Author:Echo Bodine
“There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.” PeopleTwoDifferentMomentsMovingSongActorsActingTalkingListeningDependsMovedMoodTwo ThingsThat MomentNot TalkingListening To Others Author:Janet Jackson
“When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.” PeopleMeanMightHouseCan DoFictionCasesListeningFineLimitsSay AnythingClueSurroundingsNon FictionFiction WritersIllustrating Author:Miranda July
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentUsedLanguageStuffListeningRapAccentsDifferent Languages Author:Wyclef Jean
“It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.” PeopleWantIdeasPastStuffParentSituationRecordsWonderfulListeningElementsFinancialStoresLooking BackWonderful ThingsRejectingRecyclingThriftNew MusicCollectibles Author:Christian Marclay
“The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.” PeopleKindWarFacesDiesFallGamesSimpleDecisionRecordsEffectsRocksExampleListeningEatingModelsAll KindsBoredBombsThrownShelvesFalling OffAnorexicsDecisions We MakeDomino Effect Author:Leo Lionni
“The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.” PeopleKindFoundListeningRadioExcitedAfterthought Author:Scott Aukerman
“People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.” PeopleKnowsListening Author:James Altucher
“Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.” PeopleStoriesUsePainLyingListeningNewsGood News Author:Karen Armstrong
“As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingTermStyleListeningEasierGuitarTechniqueDevelopingEvolveSongwritersListening To Music Author:Ian Anderson
“Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.” PeopleStillsHelpingCan DoTechnologyFocusAchieveListeningDeafGallaudet Author:I. King Jordan
“I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.” PeopleIfsBelieveStillsSometimesMatterHardEnoughSoundTreeFlowerListeningQuietBirdI Still Believe Book:In Cold Blood Source: In Cold Blood
“People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.” PeopleSometimesCan DoListening Author:Alex Blumberg
“I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.” PeopleThinkingMightSongListening Author:Thalia Zedek
“I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensListeningForgottenSingersCoreObsessedObsessiveJust ListenAnalyzing Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that the other person or people would love or would like, at least. Nothing was true because I was not playing what I wanted, and they were not listening to anything that was coming from anywhere true.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingPersonsPlayWantedRoomsListeningComfortable Author:Juana Molina
“The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.” PeopleKnowsAbleNightNextGamesNamesFrontsListeningInvolvedExcitingAskingBoxesVideoAutographsCompetitiveness Author:Jeremy Roenick
“Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be writing songs or listening to other people's stuff.” PeopleWritingWholeSongCoursesStuffListeningSavedWhole LifeWriting SongsListening To Others Author:Matt Nathanson
“The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.” PeopleNeedsShouldLooksFactsDecisionMinutesListeningConflictWeaponsExpectedNuclearZoneCracksUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricGave UpPrecedentConcessions Author:Michael Hastings
“I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealAgeFunSidesFansHonestListeningRelateFakeEnjoyableRelatable Author:Ariana Grande
“It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksMayEasyActingHellListeningSceneIntellectualLatterSpontaneousListening To Others Author:Gary Cole
“I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.” PeopleWantPersonsDifferentListeningSelfishDifferent ThingsReally AmazingAmazing PeopleDifferent Music Author:Charli XCX
“I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.” PeopleWantYearsRememberSongListeningTenMemorableEmsGreat Times Author:Cher Lloyd
“I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.” PeopleJobsMotherTurnsListeningSpreadSatKitchenNeighborhoodSundayGossipAfternoonAuntSunday Afternoons Author:John Dufresne
“If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have nothing to do with what I do. From a listening perspective, there's just something in their playing that I'm inspired by.” PeopleIfsSaidWould BePerspectiveListeningInspiredPretentiousReally Weird Author:Sam Amidon
“The goal is that people will find something of themselves in it. But you don't need to know what a hexachord is! You don't need to know what serialism is. You don't need to know anything technical. It's more about the state of mind of being open and listening to what's really going on. And I think that the more open you can be, the better. So maybe it's not good to have expectations.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMindStatesGoalListeningExpectationsState Of Mind Author:Missy Mazzoli
“The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.” PeopleKnowsIdeasRocksStupidListeningConcertsReally PrettyRock Concerts Author:Robbie Robertson
“I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldBigsLastsNamesSpeakJudgingListeningAlbumsMusic LoveI Love MusicJudge Me Author:Paris Hilton
“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHeavenStuffListeningNewsDiscouraging Author:Stephen W. Thompson
“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!” PeopleKnowsMenYearsStillsArtistDarkPleasureVirtueFiveFansSubjectsInspireHe ManListeningBirthHundredAncientThis DayGoddessPhasesWorldlySermonsRenaissanceVenusWorldly PleasuresBotticelli Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“Now that I'm afraid was institutionalized, and the great thing about the Canadian content regulations is that it broke that open. I mean it broke it open because people were faced with no choice, but to really start listening to these records and find the ones that they could play. It didn't take long for Canadian radio to go "Wow! We're not going broke doing this, it's not killing us, the audience isn't complaining."” PeopleMeanLongPlayChoicesAudienceRecordsListeningKillingRadioComplainingGreat ThingsBrokeWowRegulation Author:Bernie Finkelstein
“I think people are listening to our message of securing the homeland first, keeping the American people safe and improving our economic situation. I think those things are being received well, and we're moving forward here.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsMovingSituationEconomicListeningSafeMessagesMoving ForwardImprovingHomeland Author:Chris Christie
“With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsPiecesListeningClassical MusicFiltersReferencing Author:Paul Lansky
“As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between the lines of what some body is saying and trying to read their mind a little bit where there at because most people don't really say what they're feeling. Which is the bones of great literature.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMindWellsLittlesImportantFeelingsBodyLiteratureBitsLinesListeningLittle BitCommunicateBonesBetween The LinesGreat LiteratureRead Between The Lines Author:Joy Behar
“I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.” PeopleAbleWantedParentChurchListeningGrewGrew UpFranklinMarvin Author:Rahki
“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentPlayKidsChurchGrowing UpGrowingFiguresListeningGrewWorshipGrew UpJazzGuitarBackgroundsPlentyOddDifferent ThingsUniquenessNerdAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Michael Gungor
“Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.” PeopleThinkingWorldMadeStillsImportantRiskListeningPaidAlbumsEnormousRhythmConcertsAuntFuseRhythm And Blues Author:Joan Baez
“I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesPoliticalStreetsListeningPoliticianMedicineClimateBruised Author:Ice Cube
“I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.” PeopleFeelsSongListeningLibrary Author:Jacob Bannon
“We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.” PeopleYearsBelieveLittlesStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesImpossibleHeardListeningMeetingsUnited States Of America Author:Hillary Clinton
“I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.” PeopleHardFactsListeningInternalsListening To MusicSpinningCdsIpods Author:Alexis Taylor
“A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.” PeopleSongListeningToneListening To Music Author:Alex Scally
“Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.” PeopleWorldFansListeningInstinctCatering Author:DJ Shadow
“I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.” PeopleMenBelieveI CanListeningOld Man Author:Edwyn Collins
“I think it's pretty dynamic. There's a lot of energy there and life, and you'll have women dressed in their traditional African dress when they come, and you have people from all over the place, and some people have headphones on because they're listening in Spanish.” PeopleThinkingEnergyListeningDressesTraditionalHeadphones Author:Michael Emerson
“My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.” PeopleWellsIdeasPlayWholeViewsRocksListeningGrewGrew UpInstrumentsVery GoodPunkPunk RockFlipped Author:Doug Martsch
“People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.” PeopleWayAttentionFiveMinutesHugeListeningWindowPatientSecondsFive Minutes Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.” PeopleStoriesAbleSchoolLeftTalkingHellWonderfulListeningAddComprehensionBlackboard Author:Malachy McCourt