Top 100 Listen Learn Quotes
#1. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#2. They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet,
when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.
Julie Kagawa
#4. Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
John C. Maxwell
#6. Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Rumi
#7. Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.
Frank Robinson
#8. The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love.
Steve Knox
#9. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#10. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.
Richard Diaz
#12. If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Sharon Weil
#13. Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it - which always amounts to the same.
Jacques Derrida
#14. I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.
Melody Beattie
#16. Instead of doubting yourself, have faith in yourself. Instead of doubting the truth, doubt the lies. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
Miguel Ruiz
#17. It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.
John Taylor Gatto
#18. The role of a disciple begins with recognition of personal ignorance. Therefore, true disciples listen to learn - not to argue.
Kevin Rhodes
#19. Ryuu stepped forward. "Meryn, listen carefully. Elizabeth is not only your new sister, she will also be your Yoda. She will teach you and guide you in the ways of using the force, so that you will master paranormal politics. Learn well, young padawan." He clapped a hand on Meryn's shoulder.
Alanea Alder
#20. I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
Dimebag Darrell
#21. Listen to a name so private it can burn hear it said aloud and learn and learn History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison of all they want to keep Now
Leonard Cohen
#22. You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect.
Harvey MacKay
#23. A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.
Lee Clow
#24. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.
Debra Kaye
#25. You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#26. If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.
Frank Iero
#27. The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
Hermann Hesse
#28. With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.
Ellen J. Kullman
#29. My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Martina Mcbride
#30. We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.
Nur Bedeir
#31. I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
Eudora Welty
#32. Aunt Mary, you hurt my feelings." "Well, child, I'm glad to learn your feelings are hurt," returned the aunt. "I'm sure, Carley, that underneath all this--this blase ultra something you've acquired, there's a real heart. Only you must hurry and listen to it--or--
Zane Grey
#33. Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.
Claudio Abbado
#34. Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
Alice Hoffman
#35. Listen like a student.
Learn like a scholar.
Live like a sage.
Love like a saint.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. The universe speaks if you will learn to listen.
David Bowers
#37. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics.
Ariana Grande
#38. Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
Charlotte Bunch
#39. To be a mentor you must learn to be quick to listen and be slow to speak.
Euginia Herlihy
#40. Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.
Caroline Joy Adams
#41. The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
#42. There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.
Amit Ray
#43. If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.
Mohith Agadi
#44. We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming
#45. We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.
Corey Johnson
#46. When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.
Ray Bradbury
#47. Yeah, ESP," Juvenal said. "You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you're gonna say next. That's all, and you learn things.
Elmore Leonard
#48. Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi
#49. We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this?
David Platt
#50. Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.
Michael Paterniti
#51. You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...
Bob Dylan
#52. When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.
Audrey McLaughlin
#53. Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.
Rajneesh
#54. Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.
Leslie Bibb
#55. Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
Malcolm X
#56. Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen
#57. Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
Laura Lang
#58. In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.
Constantin Stanislavski
#59. When you learn to listen to your fear, you've found a compass that can show you what matters.
Seth Godin
#60. Basically, my point is not that you listen to people to learn anything listening. You're doing it to be nice and make them like you, because everyone likes to talk.
Jesse Andrews
#61. I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Whether they agree with what they're hearing or not, they have to know to shut up and listen.
W. Kamau Bell
#62. We need to be very careful to go to the pages of the Scripture to learn about God's will and the leading of the Spirit, and not simply to listen to the popular teachings of the Christian subculture in which we live.
R.C. Sproul
#63. Strive to be the best you can be ... focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough' ... and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.
Robby Naish
#64. Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
Letitia Baldrige
#65. If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.
John Hurt
#66. Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.
Molly Quinn
#67. Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#68. The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Rachel Carson
#69. I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
Eugene H. Peterson
#70. My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.
Gabrielle Giffords
#71. We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.
Michael Jackson
#72. So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions.
James Patterson
#73. We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.
Patricia Hampl
#74. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.
Frances Moore Lappe
#75. If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.
Mickey Rooney
#76. Sometimes failure is the best thing that can happen to you if you learn to listen to the lessons in it.
Jeff Goins
#77. I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.
Dale J. Stephens
#78. If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
Ted Koppel
#80. Learn to listen and trust your inner voice
Rajneesh
#81. Listen to learn. Learn to earn!
Rob Liano
#82. Listen to the Lord's appeal: ... Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.
Peter Chrysologus
#83. Your ears and put them over your mouth," Butcher says. "Learn to listen, see, smell, and absorb everything around you without speaking your thoughts first. If
Kate White
#84. Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.
Thorton Wilder
#85. You must learn to listen to and obey God, especially in a society where it's easy and expected to do what is most comfortable.
Francis Chan
#86. When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.
Gordon Brown
#87. Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to
the one who praises you. Learn from them and do
something about it.
Paul Kagame
#88. Proverbs 1:5 states, "Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance." Success is born out of the willingness to listen and learn and to observe and absorb.
Antipas L. Harris
#89. I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.
Mary J. Miller
#90. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse
#91. So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South
Jim Korkis
#92. We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#93. [T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea ... setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.
Deborah Tannen
#94. If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.
Dwayne Johnson
#96. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes
Robert Kirkman
#98. In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.
Bing Crosby
#100. Learn all you can and listen to what your heart tells you. It knows where you need to be.
K. Weikel
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