Pastoral Resources

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.