#listen

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ↗

#get #lifetime #listening #preferred #reward

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#brothers #create #fraternity #had #help

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#discourse #fancy #full #glorious #having

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#absolutely #anybody #anything #bad #be true

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. ↗

— Michael Ende

#even #everyone #everything #fashion #her

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. ↗

— Enya

#classical composers #composers #i #listen #tend

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ↗

— Epicurus

#another #evil #forever #god #listened

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive. ↗