#listen

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#guidance #inner-guidance #listening #self-awareness #music

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#harmony #language #listening #nature #waves

When you're young, you say what you feel. When you're adult, you speak what you think. When you grow old, you listen to what nature says. ↗

— Toba Beta

#feel #listen #old #think #young

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ↗

— Tommy Smothers

#ideas #listen #only #people #right

When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~ ↗

— Miranda Linda Weisz

#listen-to-your-heart #listening-to-inner-self #meditation #truth #self-worth

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen. ↗

— Alan Alda

#assumed #badly #because #box #corner

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

#allowed #applause #been #between #culprit

I grew up listening to old soul. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#i #listening #old #soul #up

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 #i love #interpretation #leave #listener

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything