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That's the alchemy of music -- you write these things that are personal to you, but once you release them into the world, they take on their own life depending on the listener and the listener's experience. – Allison Russell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You want to be a true listener. – Gordon Hemptons	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it. – Guy Clark	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Under the social media microscope this will be much tougher because most every viewer, reader, listener will be judging — many in real time, it's a daunting news agenda, but the public is tuned in and amped up. News organizations will be judged quickly and harshly. – Frank Sesno	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was struck that Barack Obama is the best listener as a leader I had ever seen and Donald Trump is the worst I've ever seen, barack Obama had the confidence to be quiet and try and get that. Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so I don't see any prospect that Donald Trump would be able to be quiet for long enough to hear the truth. – James Comey	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Flag on the play ? - Email us atHALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COMwithyour tips, comments or questions. SCOREBOARD Trump job performance Average approval :41.6 percent Average disapproval :53.6 percent Net Score : -12 points Change from one week ago : down 1.2 points [ Average includes : Gallup : 40 % approve - 55 % disapprove ; Quinnipiac University : 38 % approve - 58 % disapprove ; NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University : 39 % approve - 51 % disapprove ; NBC/WSJ : 45 % approve - 52 % disapprove ; Fox News : 46 % approve - 51 % disapprove. ] Control of House Republican average :40 percent Democratic average :48.2 percent Advantage : Democrats plus 8.2 points Change from one week ago : No change [ Average includes : Quinnipiac University : Dems 51 % - GOP 39 % ; NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University : Dems 47 % - GOP 40 % ; Fox News : Dems 48 % - GOP 40 % ; Suffolk University/USA Today : Dems 45 % - GOP 39 % ; CNN : Dems 50 % - GOP 42 %. ] I ’LL TELL YOU WHAT : DOG DAYS OF SUMMER This week, Dana and Chris discuss the dog days of summer and upcoming end-of-summer vacations. Plus, Chris breaks down the moderate middle, highlights some key midterm races to watch, and dips into the listener mailbag.LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE HERE TRUMP HATE-TWEETS SESSIONS, BUT MAKES NO MOVES Fox News :. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He plays his cards very close to his chest, he is an interminable listener, he may not say much but he’ll just sit there and listen and listen and listen. – Trent Lott	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.” - Dan Reynold – Dan Reynolds	added by anonymous 5 years ago
And then now, here comes the science: Is there anything that science can tell us to get [the child] to be a really better listener and controlled better by [the parent's] behavior? and the answer is wildly 'yes.'. – Alan Kazdin	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think a good director is a good listener. – Denis Villeneuve	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Always thank a good listener. You never know when you might need them again! – Ashima	added by ashima 7 years ago
I am a big listener to the universe, and that’s where I am at right now, i am always thinking about what’s next. I am touring and making an album, and all I ’m thinking about is music. I just love it. – Kristin Chenoweth	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
To have sound ears listen to what this existence has to say and harmonize your life, so be a good listener and MickeyMize your life. Share with as many to volunteer obedience to the laws of mother nature. – Mickey Mehta	added by Mickeymized 8 years ago
It puts me in a position of somebody who is being proactive about their life. One who is acting in defense of Jim Ambrose and others, to couch it that way informs the listener -- often a potential sexual partner -- that I care what you think, but I know enough about Jim Ambrose to know that if you want to perceive me as a victim, cry for me, be disgusted by me or get up and leave, you can do all of those things. – Jim Ambrose	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own. – Claude Lévi-Strauss	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don’t require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn’t require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests. – Tom Fahy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see. – Ali ibn-Abi-Talib	added by Sid 10 years ago
Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener. – Bryant McGill	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. – Katharine Whitehorn	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. – Kenneth A. Wells	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. – Katharine Whitehorn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To the good listener, half a word is enough. – Danish proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago

That's the alchemy of music -- you write these things that are personal to you, but once you release them into the world, they take on their own life depending on the listener and the listener's experience.

– Allison Russell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You want to be a true listener.

– Gordon Hemptons

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

– Guy Clark

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Under the social media microscope this will be much tougher because most every viewer, reader, listener will be judging — many in real time, it's a daunting news agenda, but the public is tuned in and amped up. News organizations will be judged quickly and harshly.

– Frank Sesno

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was struck that Barack Obama is the best listener as a leader I had ever seen and Donald Trump is the worst I've ever seen, barack Obama had the confidence to be quiet and try and get that. Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so I don't see any prospect that Donald Trump would be able to be quiet for long enough to hear the truth.

– James Comey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Flag on the play ? - Email us atHALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COMwithyour tips, comments or questions. SCOREBOARD Trump job performance Average approval :41.6 percent Average disapproval :53.6 percent Net Score : -12 points Change from one week ago : down 1.2 points [ Average includes : Gallup : 40 % approve - 55 % disapprove ; Quinnipiac University : 38 % approve - 58 % disapprove ; NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University : 39 % approve - 51 % disapprove ; NBC/WSJ : 45 % approve - 52 % disapprove ; Fox News : 46 % approve - 51 % disapprove. ] Control of House Republican average :40 percent Democratic average :48.2 percent Advantage : Democrats plus 8.2 points Change from one week ago : No change [ Average includes : Quinnipiac University : Dems 51 % - GOP 39 % ; NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University : Dems 47 % - GOP 40 % ; Fox News : Dems 48 % - GOP 40 % ; Suffolk University/USA Today : Dems 45 % - GOP 39 % ; CNN : Dems 50 % - GOP 42 %. ] I ’LL TELL YOU WHAT : DOG DAYS OF SUMMER This week, Dana and Chris discuss the dog days of summer and upcoming end-of-summer vacations. Plus, Chris breaks down the moderate middle, highlights some key midterm races to watch, and dips into the listener mailbag.LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE HERE TRUMP HATE-TWEETS SESSIONS, BUT MAKES NO MOVES Fox News :.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He plays his cards very close to his chest, he is an interminable listener, he may not say much but he’ll just sit there and listen and listen and listen.

– Trent Lott

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.” - Dan Reynold

– Dan Reynolds

added by anonymous
5 years ago

And then now, here comes the science: Is there anything that science can tell us to get [the child] to be a really better listener and controlled better by [the parent's] behavior? and the answer is wildly 'yes.'.

– Alan Kazdin

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I think a good director is a good listener.

– Denis Villeneuve

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Always thank a good listener. You never know when you might need them again!

– Ashima

added by ashima
7 years ago

I am a big listener to the universe, and that’s where I am at right now, i am always thinking about what’s next. I am touring and making an album, and all I ’m thinking about is music. I just love it.

– Kristin Chenoweth

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

To have sound ears listen to what this existence has to say and harmonize your life, so be a good listener and MickeyMize your life. Share with as many to volunteer obedience to the laws of mother nature.

– Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

It puts me in a position of somebody who is being proactive about their life. One who is acting in defense of Jim Ambrose and others, to couch it that way informs the listener -- often a potential sexual partner -- that I care what you think, but I know enough about Jim Ambrose to know that if you want to perceive me as a victim, cry for me, be disgusted by me or get up and leave, you can do all of those things.

– Jim Ambrose

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don’t require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn’t require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests.

– Tom Fahy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

– Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

added by Sid
10 years ago

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

– Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Katharine Whitehorn

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

– Kenneth A. Wells

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

– Katharine Whitehorn

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To the good listener, half a word is enough.

– Danish proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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