“Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part.” HomeLastsSongOrderSoundReadyListeningBedRainPizza Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.” WorldCertainWaitingSeaReadyListeningMountainEmptyWoods Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.” PeopleIfsWayWantLooksLinesReadyListeningSpeakersEnd TimesSpend TimeNelson Author:Desmond Tutu
“The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want my son to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready."” WantTryingKidsParentRocksSonReadyListeningMy SonRebelEchoesChamberNot ReadyPapa Author:Jack Black
“You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.” PeopleEndsHomeYoungEasyFireGenerationsRocksReadyListeningRetirementRock N RollUnclesGetting OldTorchesDaveTappingRetirement Homes Author:Dave Barry
“Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.” CharacterDoorsReadyKeysListeningConcentrationClosing Author:Jean Stapleton
“I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.” I CanBigsKidsLosesRoomsEffectsReadyListeningMy FriendsBlameHeyCracksLeapMatesSooner Or LaterSighListening To MusicNot Ready Author:Thom Yorke
“Here is the key to existence. Are you listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will know how to run your lives. You will know if you have been living life to the full, and if you realize you haven't been, you will know immediately how to correct that state of affairs. As soon as I tell you the key to existence. Are you ready? Are you ready for me to tell you?... Always breathe. That's the basis of life, breathing. That's basically the basis. If you don't breathe, you die.” IfsKnowsHas BeensStatesRunningDiesRealizingExistenceKnow HowHavensReadyKeysListeningBasesAffairBreatheBreathingLive LifeLiving Life To The Full Author:Christopher Durang
“I don't mind either one [crowd that is more willing to interact or crowd that's more ready to just watch]. Both of them are forms of listening to what I'm saying so I can't ask for any more than that.” MindI CanFormAsksWatchesWillingReadyListeningCrowds Author:Bill Burr
“In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.” WritingHas BeensBodyEnergyHoursClassMeditationReadyListeningExercisePaperFinalsJournalingSemesterDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.” ThinkingMenTwoReasonMotivationalPoliticalTimeReadyListeningThirdsConfusionMy TimeTime Management Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln