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“I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.”

Book Process Imagination Painting Listening Paint Flight My Imagination Audio Audio Books

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.”

Process Listening Creating Speakers

Author:Michael Rost

“Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.”

Real Process Hours Attitude Talking Environment Communication Listening Back And Forth Interactive Eyeballs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.”

People Feels Trying Believe Hands Turns Jesus Process Church Listening Pressure Guides Justify Laziness

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Christians can not truly evangelize unless they are prepared to be evangelized in the process. In sharing the good news, people are enriched by the spiritual insights, honest questions and depth of devotion demonstrated by those of other faiths. Including others involves listening to them, learning from them. Much of what exists in other faiths may not necessarily be hostile to the kingdom. Christians can learn a lot from other walks of life.”

“True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.”

Source: Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire

“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.”

Thinking Firsts Problem Process Sound Pieces Listening First Time Exciting Aging Hearing Critical Stale Aging Process

Author:Paul Lansky

“Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.”

Thinking Process Term Listening Approach Careful Generosity Agendas Collaboration

Author:Eyvind Kang

“The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”

Feels Believe Hands Turns Jesus Process Church Listening Pressure Guides

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because you are trying out so many different ideas, and if you are listening to it from the outside, it would sound horrible!”

Ifs Thinking Trying Ideas Different Feelings Speak Process Sound Creative Listening Albums Horrible Fragile Creative Process Different Ideas

Author:Trentemøller

“Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.”

Ifs Way Feels Stills Ends Might Jobs Joy Process Church Listening Sitting Release Sunday Presidency Monday Good Job Going To Work

Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Three Process My Own Listening Judgment Empty Prejudice Come Up Hearing Interviews Exhausted

Author:Anna Deavere Smith