Michael Rost quotes

“Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.”
-- Michael Rost

Source : Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.4, Routledge

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“Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.”
-- Michael Rost

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“Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.”
-- Michael Rost

Source : Michael Rost (2013). “Teaching and Researching: Listening”, p.3, Routledge

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“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”

“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”

“I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

“The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.”

“Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.”

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

“He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.”

“...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”

“I love good, loud speakers.”

“An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.”