Duke Ellington Quotes

Everybody hears, but few listen.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

Interactions - whether personal or business, teacher-student, friend to friend, or family member - all call for balance, respect, and compassion.

Play well with others.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

A conversation isn't a competition.