Parker Stevenson Quotes

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.