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Quotes About Listen

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.
~ Mr. T
My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.
~ PartyNextDoor
Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.
~ Stephen Moore
You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.
~ Alex Scott
My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I'm in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I'll listen to something else.
~ Rick Rubin
Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
~ Nicholas Haslam
I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.
~ Christopher Shays
Shut up,' he explained.
~ Ring Lardner
Evening, and home I go, commuting from a world that won't listen to a world that has heard it a thousand times.
~ Robert Brault
Forgive me this digression that I stand Entranced awhile at Law's first beam, outbreak O' the business, when the Count's good angel bade "Put up thy sword, born enemy to the ear, "And let Law listen to thy difference!" And Law does listen and compose the strife, Settle the suit, how wisely and how well! On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault, Law bends a brow maternally severe, Implies the worth of perfect chastity, By fancying the flaw she cannot find.
~ Robert Browning
Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor
~ Robert Jordan
Yeah, I'm Governor, Jack, and the trouble with governors is they think they got to keep their dignity. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The Piper is coming nearer, he said, he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.
~ Laura Berman Fortgang
God in Heaven listen to me, Listen to my whisper'd prayer Make me worthy, though so lowly, All his love and life to share.
~ Laura Thompson
Let's get out and find Newman and try to reason with him." "Reason how?" I asked. Edward gave me Ted's grin, but it was his own words, "I'm a scary son of a bitch, let's see if I can spook him." I grinned. "I like it. Scare him into giving up the lead." "Tilford will listen to us; Newman won't." "Let's go scare the rookie," I said. He grinned. "Let's.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Eating plain toast will detonate her. I'll have some honey. When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but it's an even worse thing to have to listen to.
~ Lawrence Block
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
~ John Keats
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
You can come and sit by our gate, and listen to the noise of a feasting; but we are clever enough to come to you for a dinner.
~ A. I. Kuprin
Socrates The philosopher offered us a way out of two powerful delusions: that we should always or never listen to the dictates of public opinion. To follow his example, we will best be rewarded if we strive instead to listen to the dictates of reason
~ Alain de Botton
Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.
~ Diane Duane