1.
Be a good listener.
Encourage others to talk about themselves.
Dale Carnegie
2.
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
John Ray
5.
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
Richard Rohr
6.
The casual listener won't be around forever.
Mike Shinoda
7.
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st,
be an attentive listener.
Dale Carnegie
8.
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
David Gilmour
11.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Bob Edwards
13.
Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
14.
We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.
Charlene Li
15.
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
Paul Fleischman
16.
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Jimmy Buffett
17.
... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
Roald Dahl
18.
Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
Frans de Waal
20.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
Moby
21.
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Charlotte Bronte
22.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan Perlis
24.
My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
Dave Grohl
25.
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is
Erykah Badu
27.
Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.
M. Ward
28.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
Truman Capote
29.
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
Jennifer Lynch
30.
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
David Sedaris
31.
As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.
Erin McKeown
32.
I am not an original thinker-but I am an original listener.)
Aravind Adiga
33.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Kelly Jones
34.
One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.
Donnie Simpson
36.
It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.
Arlene Francis
39.
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
Ayumi Hamasaki
40.
We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
41.
We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.
Lester Bowie
43.
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens
44.
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
Kevin Stirtz
45.
Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.
Diana Gabaldon
46.
My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything
Sonya Sones
47.
A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
Johnny Olson