#listening

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. ↗

— Alex Noble

#between #beyond #care #each #energy

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#average #average person #before #came #certainly

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#experience #fascinating #few #find #format

There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations. ↗

— Henry Reed

#chemical #chemical reactions #hearing #listening #only

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#learn #listening #lot #out #you

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#listening #music #personal #reading #silence

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ↗

— Robert Smith

#i #listening #looking #my time #rather

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#friends #i #i remember #like #listening

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character. ↗

— Scott Speedman

#challenge #character #dudes #especially #guys