I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
Listening Quotes (1065 Quotes)
Listen, let's not fool ourselves, okay If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, it's a Palestinian state.
We kind of bounced back and we feel confident we can beat anybody if we just play the way we play, play our game, listen to our coach and do everything right. It was kind of tough in the beginning.
I turn you towards Divine, winning your confidence, your love, your submission, by being among you, as one of yourselves, one whom you can see, listen to, speak to, touch and treat with reverence and devotion.
I went to Iraq as a listener. I just got tired of watching the news every night and hearing generals and politicians talking about the economics and the politics of the war, and never explaining the human cost of the war. I just wanted to go there and listen to people.
I went down with my guitar and sat on his steps until he got there. And when he got there I introduced myself and he said, You're the one that's been calling. I said, Yeah. You know, I had to take the chance, he was either going to let me come in, or he was going to run me off. Evidently, he woke up on the right side of the bed that morning. He said, Come on in, let's listen.
The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.
They all want to play, so they'll listen, ... That's never been a problem.
Come to the meeting with an open mind. Listen to what is being said, even if you don't believe. Just listen.
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
I find hope for the future because there are 100 of your fellow students 'dead' on the Rock today, in the rain, so that you will notice, so that you will listen, and so that you will care.
We'll make it be known that it's time to focus and pay attention to details. Alan usually says something in the huddle and makes sure everybody understands what we need to do. When you hear things from a five-time Pro Bowler like Alan, you listen.
I've always called it a rebellion. People were rebelling against injustice. They demanded to be heard, and from that a lot of people started to listen.