Selective Listening Quotes

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Sometimes with artists, I want to hear a few things before I buy the whole album.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

You've got to make sure you're listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.

Really, I only listen to like five songs.

I'm super particular with my music.

Not everyone is worth listening to.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, 'What did they say? Yeah, I'll take that advice.' Now I'm a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.

Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

Sure I hear what people say. But the only opinions I care about are from the fans.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Politicians listen to economists who tell them what they want to hear.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.

When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.