You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
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.
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
