Top 1200 Good Listener Quotes & Sayings

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

I'm a good listener.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

I'm a darned good listener.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

A good listener goes a long way.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Music should be demanding for the listener. You can gain more out of it that way. I always try to leave space in the music for the listener to have their own experience of it, so it's not bombarded with only one meaning.

To me, soul music is anything that is made from the heart, and therefore moves the listener; it's not overly self-aware, and leaves room for the listener to make their own conclusions.

I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

I think I am quite a good listener.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Stop eating junk. Be a good listener and a loyal friend.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

I think a good director is a good listener.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good listener, however. Thinking that I was a good listener was one thing that kept me from being a good listener. It's a very dangerous thought. I just want to be better.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.