#listener

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. ↗

— Macklemore

#editing #fine #fine line #however #i

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#attentive #became #i #i am #listener

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#concerts #feel #getting #i #i do

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#everywhere #good #knows #listener #only

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#coming #compromises #doing #express #listener

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#aware #become #danger #experience #get

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#communicating #course #ends #i #listener

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. ↗

— John Powell

#know #listener #speaker #truly #wants

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. ↗

— Brigham Young

#build #down #ears #enjoy #enter