Not Listening Quotes
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Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.
— Armando Iannucci
Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders.
— Billy Graham
You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
— Oscar Wilde
I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
— Chris Stapleton
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
— Blake Judd
That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.
— Alison Krauss
Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.
— DaShanne Stokes
And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.
— Elizabeth Scott
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
— James Altucher
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
— Brother Ali
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
— Simon Sinek
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
— Stephen R. Covey
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
— Richard Paul Evans
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.
— Alan Watts
Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.
— Mary Kay Ash
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
— Mother Teresa
[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
— Noam Chomsky
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
— George Bernard Shaw
A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
— Michelle Richmond
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
— William Howard Taft
Just because someone doesn't respond ... doesn't mean they are not
Listening. — Michelle Carithers
Listening. — Michelle Carithers
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.
— Yara Shahidi
I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
— Rick Riordan
To listen to a person is not passive.
— Elizabeth Strout
A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
— Orly Wahba
Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.
— Peter Drucker
Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.
— Rebecca Stead
Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.
— Clint Eastwood
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
— Anni Albers
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
— Jessica Savitch
I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything .
— Tina J. Richardson
Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.
— Ashish Patel
I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
— Conor McPherson
He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.
— Thomas Szasz
When anyone tells me I can't do anything ... I'm just not listening any more.
— Florence Griffith Joyner
I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
— Tim Gunn
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you
— Martin Luther
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.
— David Johansen
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
You can't go through life not listening to music.
— Graeme Simsion
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ... not waiting to deliver your lines.
— Michael Caine
Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.
— Al Ritter
Spiritual dating is about listening to your instincts and not rushing into anything.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
— Pauline Oliveros
It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.
— Hannah Kent
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
— Charles Spurgeon
To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!
— Frederic Chopin
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
— Don Herold
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
— Rokia Traore
What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.
— Leanna Renee Hieber
I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace. — William Shakespeare
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace. — William Shakespeare
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
— Eliot Weinberger
It is the disease of not listening ...
that I am troubled with. — William Shakespeare
that I am troubled with. — William Shakespeare
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!
— Sailor Jerry
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
— Bill Hader
The radio is not for listening to. It is for displaying in the kitchen, so that invited guests will consider you an intellectual."
- Tony Bulmer — Tony Bulmer
- Tony Bulmer — Tony Bulmer
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
— Jonny Greenwood
Listening is not waiting for your turn to talk
— S.E. Sever
(...) Try not to speak ill of people in the future. You never know when they might be listening (...)
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
What's the use of saying anything, when you're not even listening? - excerpt from: freefalling
— Darlenne Susan Girard
The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
— Russell Simmons
Mark this down if you can. Silences, not just sentences, form the work of pastoral ministry. Wise pastors are listening preachers.
— Zack Eswine
Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
— Gary Rohrmayer
The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.
— Maria Bamford
Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
— Leanne Payne
The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening.
— 50 Cent
It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.
— Heraclitus
Be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.
— George R R Martin
The listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.
— William Faulkner
There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.
— Liu Cixin
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
— Steve Vai
Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions.
— Krista Tippett
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
— F. Sionil Jose
It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening.
— Chuck Lorre
I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.
— Mitch Hedberg
You confuse not speaking with not listening.
— Gregory Maguire
I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.
— Celine Dion
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
— A.A. Milne
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
— Andrew Mason
If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
— Rian Johnson
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
— Campbell Newman
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
— Criss Jami