Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.
Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Whether you succeed or not, people will talk about you. Forget about what they say and listen to what your heart believes in.
I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.
Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.
When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.
When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.
Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
