Sentences with phrase «only listen to people»

«In my experience, traditional publishers only listen to people with agents,» Prato says.

Second suggestion is to only listen to people who have more than twenty or thirty or more novels in print and who have been in the business for more than twenty years.

And, if you only listen to people who agree with you, learning never comes (see point # 3).

You have evidently only listened to people talk about ancient texts and not read any for yourself.

Its award - winning work includes technologies that can not only listen to a person speaking but also read out other unrelated texts in that very same voice.

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

The ability to get people to not only listen and follow, but to think and execute.

When asked about his longer - term strategy for Hitachi, the chief executive said: «Listen to all of the people's opinions, not only internal but also external opinions [and] imagine [how things will be like] five years later.

Not only does doing so make the other person more comfortable — and therefore more likely to open up — but it also proves that you've been listening and have really heard what they've been telling you.

Great people listen to others not only for validation or politeness, but also to learn.

When I stopped listening and abiding by what the creativity myth was telling me — that only a select few people have the potential to tap into their creative genius — my life took on a whole new meaning.

Truly confident people realize they know a lot, but they wish they knew more, and they know the only way to learn more is to listen more.

Sadly, in addition, we're also seeing more and more of a trend where media is sliced and diced and siloed and where each listener is seeking affirmation over information - we are basically looking and listening only to the people who are telling us what we want to hear.

When it comes to LinkedIn, there are pretty much three people I listen to, but only one has ever dropped new business right in my lap the way John Nemo did.

«If they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts,» Delaney Tarr, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people last month, told tens of thousands rallying in Washington.

And the committee hearings are carefully only listening to such people, because these are very respectable hearings.

I pray that the songs I write would bring people not only into an intellectual understanding, but a true heart connect with the God who is bending over the balcony of heaven to listen to them sing words that move Him and impact Him.

People like you only listen to what your pastor reads to you or tells you to read, anyway.

If people only listened to the true spirit instead of what they are always feed maybe they be open to the truth.

No close - minded and hateful = those who believe that only they know the truth, refuse to listen to anyone who think differently than they do, and regularly says that people are going to he.ll unless they «convert» to their specific brand of faith.

Presumably the people who produce them listen to the Rolling Stones, follow occupations and strikes on television, and go to the cinema to see a Western or a Goddard; only in their capacity as producers do they make an exception, and, in their analyses, the whole media sector is reduced to the slogan of «manipulation».

We need only listen to the hype for Temptation Island to know that the devil has a great deal to do with what people tune in to see.

«Some people really only listen to one genre of music, so it's good for those people to be like, «Oh, I'm looking for more indie - rock to listen to or something.»

I sent you Isaiah so you would have refreshment and rest, but since you refused to listen to him, I will send you a people who will bring only death and destruction.

Only then can we hope to know those wonderful grace - filled moments; times when through prayer and song, listening to and reciting the familiar words of grace and the stories of redemption, our hearts soar; times when we are caught up in the stream of love — when we sing praise to God with all our hearts and minds and souls and strength — which flows from us to God through the ministry of Christ and his people and which we return to God with prayer and praise.

I would only open up to very few people in my life, because most often than not, no one listened / seemed to care.

It is the life in which one learns to speak the truth «no matter whether a whole people is listening, or only a few individuals,» and learns to speak it quietly and clearly through having been in hell and having returned to the light of day again.

Their «whites only» version of the gospel didn't require them listen to the perspectives of black people or defend the lives and dignity of their black brothers and sisters.

Concerning Nicaragua, it means that we listen less to high - decibel advocates for the administration and for the Sandinistas, and we listen more to people who offer ways to peace without supposing that all would be well if only Managua would cry «Uncle,» or if only Washington would emulate a dove.

But this is only true when we think of the church as a building that people enter and sit in a pew to sing and listen to a sermon.

Tolerance for another's opinion is one of the things that makes America free and great, backlash against Graham or the Chik - fil - A CEO is only evidence that people are becoming less willing to listen to each other.

How does he get so many people to listen to him???? Only stupid ignorants can listen to him.

There is also the implication that God only listens to and responds to persons who are in an unaltered state of consciousness / unaltered cognitive state but is this actually the case?

This does not mean I am not a reasonable person or that my idea lacks common sense, and this does not mean that I listened to only what I was told.

Real Christians Hate Religion... Real Christians Hate Hypocrites... Real Christians should be more like Christ... How could you claim to be a Christian if you don't even know your Christ... The reason why doomed people would never understand Christ is because they never tried to search for the Truth... They only listen to such rubbish things rather than the Truth... Read and do more and Talk less... It doesn't take a genius to know that Someone created you rather than you coming to life with just atoms randomly hitting each other... If you're really smart, think about it... Stop the non-sense talk about God and Science and find it out for yourself...

The Book of Jonah is a protest against those who thought God listened only to the prayers of the people of Israel.

In those days there were Jews who were using the religion for there own benefit deceiving the people of Israel, so Jesus -LCB- P.B.U.H -RCB- is telling them don't listen to them, if you want to know the true message of God, then you can only get it through me, It is as simple as that).

Do we only listen to the plight of certain people... who look like us?

This self - deception was not permanent, and could be reversed if only the people who listen to Jesus and believe in Him.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

- The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

As someone who is an evangelist at heart, I'm naturally inclined to hope people move towards rather than away from Christianity when they listen, but I've never felt compelled to ensure that the traffic only flows in one direction.

Due to the fact of the indwelling Holy Spirit and that God is everywhere all the time, God is able to treat each of us as if we were the only person in the world, the only one He needs to listen to, the only one He needs to care for.

Each makes a choice in life either to listen to salvation and follow the path of righteousness or make the choice that condemns that person not only to a life that is not fulfilled but also one in death is lived in torture.

When you only read the B over and over again, and read other people's analyses of the same, and listen only to music about the same, and hang out only with others who gorge on the same, you invariably will become a very narrow and bigoted person, and not even know it.

(ii) you, JW, have a startling new piece of evidence that was right before our eyes that will turn accepted biological science and about 10 other sciences on their heads if ONLY people would listen to you, no doubt earning you a Nobel Prize and a place in history beside the likes of Darwin, Newton and Einstein; or

I listened to sermons every chance I got, read books only about the Bible, and could only have discussion with people if they talked about the Bible.

So, only a 1) preacher who teaches what you believe or 2) a person in the pew who agrees with what you preach are the only two categories of people who listen carefully to what their own pastors preach?

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

So what you're saying is, only people that YOU have knowledge of should be listened to and considered.