Listeners – Quotes

I think pastors are

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We’re so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what’s going on, and listen. Eugene H. Peterson

I love to leave

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It’s fun to see what they’ll say it is Erykah Badu

I don’t feel like

I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me. Erykah Badu

I was not a

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener. Erskine Caldwell

It seemed rather incongruous

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. Erma Bombeck

As a listener, I

As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds. Erin McKeown

We have two ears

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus

During empathy one is

During empathy one is simply ‘there for’ the other individual, when experiencing their own feelings while listening to the other, i.e. during sympathy, the listener pays attention to something about themselves, and is not ‘there for’ the client. Consider how you would feel if you sensed that the individual listening to you was getting into … Read more

All of us love

All of us love applause, and so we should – it means that the listener likes us! Emanuel Ax

I have been trying

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit. Emanuel Ax