#listening

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#always #any #bad #big #family

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#available #awareness #bird #fact #first

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#brady #bunch #express #five #get

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#act #activities #god #his #human

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#clear #communication #effective #essential #listening

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#asking #doing #eight #how #i

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#almost #bengali #classical #classical music #european

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#exercising #hearing #hiking #i #like