Donald T. Regan Quotes

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Listen. O’ listen.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

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.

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

People never notice anything.

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Attention is the material I work with.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.