#listening

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#advise #anything #coach #else #just

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#filming #i #leonard #listening #lot

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online. ↗

— Edgar Winter

#am #being #doing #hadn #i

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#being #create #hear #i #knack

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#everything #language #listening #writing

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#daddy #girl #had #him #i

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #listening #long #music #rock

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#because #changes #clever #complex #deceptively

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting