“People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.” PeopleWantPresidentWaterLeadershipStepsListeningDrinkDiscoveryDrinkingAbsenceGenuineDesertSandStep UpThirstyMicrophonesCrawlingAmerican PresidentMiragesDesert Sand Author:Michael J. Fox
“We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.” IfsWantHeartSoulUnderstandingAcceptingLordStepsListeningLessonsMeetingsCommunicateOfferingResentmentApologyCan NotListening To OthersMagnanimity Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.” PeopleFirstsCompassionStepsListeningInner PeaceFirst Steps Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
“I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.” WorldFeelsStepsListeningWalkingBeatsListening To MusicUnison Author:Wesley Eisold
“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.” WorldGivingDesireStepsListeningDisciplineEssentialsGiving UpPrejudiceShoesSettingSettingsTemporarySpeakersFrame Of Reference Author:M. Scott Peck
“Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.” KnowsYearsFirstsWellsDecisionStepsGroupsRegretListeningCoupleMovedFocusedFirst StepsTenorsColtraneBaritones Author:David S. Ware
“I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.” LittlesStuffVoiceNaturalStepsListeningElementsMelodyCastlesCrystalsProgressionMarrying Author:Lights
“When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.” WritingTryingArtistAsksStepsInfluenceListeningShoesTherapySession Author:Bonnie McKee
“When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execution in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.” TwoLastsNightReadingRoomsStepsMorningCasesListeningOrdinaryRadioCardsWitnessCellsPrisonerExecutionLast NightElevatorsDeath RowPlaying Cards Author:Truman Capote
“It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.” PeopleWayGivingHeartFoundStepsAudienceListeningGrewMy Way Author:Dionne Warwick