Listening Quotes (1065 Quotes)



    There's evidence that Amazon has done its homework.They used insight to refine an offering that would serve this customer base and add more margin to the business.Be assured, Amazon has been doing the same with all their businesses. They are watching their customers, listening to what they say and then designing their business to meet their customers' needs. Amazon will not lose in this market. They will take business from every other retailer, online or on the street.


    I think my responsibility is to get as much information as possible and to listen. I certainly haven't come to any conclusions yet, but yes, there are some valid concerns.

    Some people didn't like the old mouse. We have many faults, but we listen. We are moving from what some people called the worst mouse to the best mouse in the industry,


    Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

    We don't make a habit of going to guys and telling them to get out of (school), but when a guy comes to you and says he's ready to turn pro, you have to listen. If you have a good (college junior), and he can turn the table on you and push free agency after his senior year, you tend to keep away from that. Free agency tends to cost more money.

    What is opportunity, and when does it knock It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to


    Those are some good, young kids, ... Frank Maile is becoming the leader of the group. ... He doesn't speak a lot, but when he does, they listen. ... He is playing the most consistent right now.





    The Democrats voted against this budget resolution, and it wasn't so much on the issues we wanted to have taken care of. Listening to the debate, each of us wants to protect Social Security in different ways. One can observe that we both want to do something about Medicare, but in different degrees and in different ways.

    By the way, listening back to things we are doing and looking through the lyrics today and stuff, it feels like we are finally getting somewhere. There are lots of songs. Too many to get together straight away. So we will be furiously rehearsing and writing as we go.



    I have to coach him, and he has to listen. That's part of it. That's taking place right now. I'm not treating him any different than I've treated him before.

    was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record will report that Judge Roberts has been entirely accurate in his statements.

    Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.



    And now we're coming to understand, I think, spiritually in this nation that there is as much power in the soul as there is in group force. There is as much power in listening and understanding and humility as there is, for instance, in military action.

    My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

    What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

    I don't think anybody has demonstrated the financial wherewithal to buy the team. We're not at the point where we're even close to selling the team. And I have to tell you ... I'm not actively looking. We have people come to us and we listen.

    Mr. Phillips said he didn't want a conventional art museum. His favorite verb was 'to linger,' meaning to spend time and listen, to learn the vocabulary of the painting. This is something you don't want to mess with.


    We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads, we've heard that, we get it, ... But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues, especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues. ... When I talk about it, people are actually listening.




    As contentious as last night's meeting may have been to the general public, when you've been through controversy as I have been I think (the council has) more in common if you're listening for it. It's hard through the clapping and yelling and shouting to hear what everybody is saying. I was trying to listen. That's a role I see as mine, to bring these very folks together to hear what they're saying.

    It's ridiculous, ... Like, 'Why would he beat his shelf Why Why, Andrew Milonakis' And then I say, 'Stop asking yourself questions and calling yourself Andrew Milonakis' And I never listen.


    In keeping the world of Charles Dickens alive, ... what I do on the stage is one thing. It's afterward that's the most special. I love to talk about Charles Dickens and hear about people's questions, or their memories of a special time or a family tradition of listening to 'A Christmas Carol.'

    I'm picking Mike Sherman in Green Bay. Listen, injuries are part of the game and injuries are mounting, especially offensively. Talk about whether or not Brett Favre is going to retire. I think there is a lot of pressure up there in Green Bay because they always think they are going to win a Super Bowl because they have Brett Favre.


    It is a glorious privilege to live, to know, to act, to listen, to behold, to love. To look up at the blue summer skyto see the sun sink slowly beyond the line of the horizon to watch the worlds come twinkling into view, first one by one, and the myriads that no man can count, and lo the universe is white with them and you and I are here.

    Listening to Eliz reminds you of why you coach and why you're out here. It's because of people like that. You have to understand how important it is to those guys. I'm proud of those guys.

    I miss his charisma. People listen to Warren Buffett for investment ideas and Bill Gates for technology. There was a general consensus that when Greenberg spoke about insurance, you wanted to listen.

    That was kind of strange ... yeah. It's definitely been a strange couple of years, those things combined with the fact that my daughter was born as well, which was one of the best times of my life. Mixed emotions, and I think in the album, there are highs and lows. I think we don't let that saturate it too much -- we still look at it as a rock 'n' roll album, and we try not to unload on the listener too much with emotional burdens -- but it's an honest record, and we're honest lyrically, and I think you can listen to it in different ways.


    Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

    The place became full of a watchful intentness now for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisisthe final overthrow.







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