Listening
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound — and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.