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Listening Quotes

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Work Love Leadership Focus Listening

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

Listening Think Enjoyed Could

I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

Me Listening Create New Up Natural

It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.

Business Me Listening Trying Adapt

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

Sandra Cisneros

Music Listening Living Places Way

Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

Business Best Death Listening House

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music Parents Listening Thinking

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

Christina Aguilera

Best Listening Understanding Artist

To those who accuse us of being populists, we respond that if this means listening to the people, then yes, we are!

People Listening Yes Respond Us Who

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

Wadada Leo Smith

Work Father King Listening Looking

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Mother Listening Always He His

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

Listening Free Care Speech Attention

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

Car Time Listening Song Looking Got

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

Support Listening Think Musicians

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

Listening Up Cash Arizona Johnny

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

Work Music Listening Trying Hide

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Henning Mankell

Knowledge Mistake People Listening

When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

Death Listening Writing Chance Rock

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Lou Williams

Family Home Support Listening Sick

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Listening Perception Understanding

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Listening Fake You Shows

Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!

Music School College Listening Know

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Music People Growing Up Listening

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

Conor McPherson

Good People Listening Luxury Who

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