#listening

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#day #deposits #economy #encouraging #every

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#pain #silence #beauty

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ↗

— Germain G. Glidden

#listening #age

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#listening #work #art

If you don't listen to the question entirely, then you are going to revise your answers frequently. ↗

— Toba Beta

#the-art-of-listening-question #art

The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening. ↗

— Colette Ruland Parrino

#morals-love #art

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#listened #listening #love #rachel-simon #silence

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change. ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#human-experience #listening #silence #wisdom #change

This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. His nesting places - the activities that are intimately associated with boredom - are already extinct in the cities and are declining in the country as well. With this the gift for listening is lost and the community of listeners disappears. For storytelling is always the art of repeated stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#listening #relaxation #storytelling #art

To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is my own. Listening to music,...is finally the most inward of acts--so inward that even language, even the language of thought, can come to seem intrusive...After all these procedures the unbreachable mysteriousness of music remains intact. The book can never be more than an interruption. Afterward, the listening begins again, to generate, in turn, other and completely different books. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#listening #music #philosophy #imagination