#listen

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#anyone #anything #i #just #listening

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#connection #consider #i #i can #listener

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#helped #i #learned #listen #me

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#i #i love #i think #listening #love

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. ↗

— Les Claypool

#i #kid #listened #little #little kid

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#embarrassing #everything #listen #otherwise #should

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day. ↗

— Kim Coates

#cries #day #does #go #happens

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#background #because #bit #brain #content

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#after #all day #any #aware #beatles

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#busy #closely #coming #good #good story