Quotes with listen

  • You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.
  • I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
  • Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
  • You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
  • It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
  • Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
  • It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
  • Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
  • However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
  • It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Victor Hugo When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • John Madden Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Baltasar Gracian If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare Listen to many, speak to a few.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Carol Roth Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Hardy That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • George Michael You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
    George Michael
    English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist (1963 - 2016)
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Don Marquis A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Pat Caddell A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
    Pat Caddell
     
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  • Basil Bunting All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    On Poetry
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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