“Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'” TryingKindSoundRealizingListeningRidiculousHeyDevelopingEmulate Author:Alex Borstein
“If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.” IfsThinkingRealizingResultsListeningLetting GoSocial MediaYieldFooling Yourself Author:Charlene Li
“It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsFightingBitsRealizingListeningPoliticianCalmWho I AmReasonableIrrelevantReally Happy Author:Nick Offerman
“I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSeemsCertainStuffRealizingResultsChangedListeningActivityElementsEarsSettlingCompositionSeemingFiltersBeing Free Author:Peter Gabriel
“Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.” PeopleIfsHelpingSufferingSidesRealizingListeningAngryCompassionateInterbeing Author:Nhat Hanh
“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.” IfsRealProblemCoursesActorsAsksRealizingAbilityActingTalkingFrontsListeningHarderCamerasHardestAssistantsNot TalkingRetarded Author:Brett Ratner
“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.” WritingBelieveSoulTogetherSongRealizingColorPaintingListeningPensMatesWriting SongsSoul Mate Author:Prince
“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
“You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.” PeopleShowsRealizingAudienceCrazyTelevisionListeningBotherDedicatedRepresentativesFractionsTelevision Shows Author:Ronald D. Moore
“An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.” ImportantSongRealizingListeningGrewGrew UpGratefulMeetingsTransitionJamSimilarityDjs Author:Avey Tare
“It [The Esemblist] is also about the generation of audience members that are watching shows and listening to us at the same time; hopefully, in time, when they listen to our show and then go see a show, they'll realize even more what it takes to make a show, and they'll know even more about everybody on stage, rather than just people above the title of the show.” PeopleKnowsShowsRealizingAudienceGenerationsStageListeningMembersHopefullyTitles Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.” IfsWayFormRealizingLordSeeingFlowerListeningHearingSensesTemplesDeitiesMantrasIncense Author:George Harrison
“I think the podcast is a way to keep working out, essentially. You can keep being creative on your own schedule, without having to book a gig. It's been a great way to connect to people, especially realizing there is an audience listening. They generally gravitate to my sensibility. I love it.” PeopleThinkingWayBookRealizingAudienceCreativeListeningWork OutSensibilitySchedulesBe CreativeGigs Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.” BelieveKindBookFeelingsSongReadingRealizingCommonListeningPromiseReading BooksDepressingPop Song Author:Will Sheff
“As an artist it's exciting to know that you've made someone's life decision after them listening to your song. To get married or un-married, when you realize that people are listening it brings a feel of responsibility that can't be ignored or denied. There's someone watching us. Whether an artist wants to admit that or not.” PeopleArtistSongRealizingDecisionResponsibilityListeningMarriedExcitingIgnoredLife Decision Author:Kelly Price
“I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. I'm not, at this point, gunning for like, "Oh, I'm gonna kill them in the first week." But as people slowly discover the album they realize it's better than a lot of what they've been listening to all year.” PeopleArtistRealizingWeekListening Author:Talib Kweli
“My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.” KnowsNeedsGivingTryingActorsRealizingListeningApproachResponding Author:Christopher Nolan
“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