#listening

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#change #does #emotional #emotional level #i

Do you wonder that I avow this to you? Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations." "How do you know? -- how can you guess all this, sir?" "I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life

The Tone is the Message. ↗

— Kevin T. McCarney

#connecting #honest #leadership #listening #management

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#bands #biggest #concerts #coolest #coolest thing

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#best #best way #crowd #did #education

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. ↗

— Robert Palmer

#comes #favourite #growing #growing up #i

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#back #britain #forward #lean #like

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#discourse #fancy #full #glorious #having