Top 100 Listen To Quotes
#1. If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.
Matt Damon
#2. When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
Natalia Kills
#3. If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
Estelle
#4. I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#5. One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#6. My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.
Zac Farro
#7. Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says.
Oswald Chambers
#8. When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.
Mario Daniel Vega
#9. I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.
David Pajo
#11. I would never be one to critique the announcers when I watched games. I try to watch the play and listen to the broadcasters and what they are pointing out. I was never one to say this one was good or bad.
John Madden
#12. Hauk wanted me to tell you that the next time he says run, we should leave the vics on board and get the hell out. I tend to agree. (Syn)
You were the one who didn't run. (Nykyrian)
Oh yeah, that was me, wasn't it? Since when do you listen to me anyway? I'm an idiot. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.
Brian Eno
#15. Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.
Robert W. Bly
#16. I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
Erik Larson
#17. There is truth to be learned here, if you are patient enough to listen to it.
Cassandra Clare
#18. A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
Aleksandar Hemon
#19. Listen to people; nothing is accomplished if you dismiss other viewpoints. And of most importance: be confident. Have confidence in yourself. Have confidence in your resume - in your skills and in your qualifications. Be willing to learn.
John-Talmage Mathis
#20. I didn't care if I was a genius or if I was pretty or if I was good in sports. I just liked to listen to Lynn and to talk to Bera-Bera and to eat rice candies.
Cynthia Kadohata
#21. If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#22. I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.
Avery Johnson
#23. I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#24. No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.
Cassandra Clare
#25. A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.
John Wooden
#26. Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing.
Joel Osteen
#27. Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.
Riyad Mansour
#28. The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.
Larry Burkett
#29. Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.
Eugene Kennedy
#30. We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.
Sherry Turkle
#31. People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.
Enya
#32. Music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.
Paulo Coelho
#33. some people no want to listen to the truth and like to believe in a beautiful dressed lie from the wrong person.
Jan Jansen
#34. I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
Camilla Lackberg
#35. Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.
Nicholas Payton
#36. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#37. I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.
Phil Anselmo
#38. I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.
Patti LuPone
#39. If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones!
C.S. Lewis
#40. Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
R. B. Kitaj
#41. When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don't listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions.
Girdhar Joshi
#42. I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
Andy Garcia
#43. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.
DJ Quik
#44. Read (or listen to on CD) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand This book is a fictional cautionary tale of what would happen if the most ambitious, innovative thinkers were no longer rewarded for using their minds to help advance society.
Steve Siebold
#45. It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.
James Hetfield
#47. I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.
Devendra Banhart
#48. My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
Penn Jillette
#49. I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.
Jay Reatard
#50. Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
Yul Vazquez
#51. I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
Lauryn Hill
#52. I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.
Hannah Moskowitz
#53. When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel ... you have to listen to it.
Jim Crace
#54. Listen to what speaks to your heart.
A.D. Posey
#55. Listen to me, my deadly little pearl. Choose love. Always choose love. If the decision is between love and anything else, choose love." "And
Gail Carriger
#56. Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway." So, sometimes with art, it is important
just to look.
Marina Abramovic
#57. My mom and I are very honest with each other, almost to a fault. But that's just the way I am in life. If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song.
Kesha
#58. That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Smokey Robinson
#59. Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
William Blake
#60. Listen to your soul; it's calling you toward the life that is meant for you.
Renae A. Sauter
#61. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Criss Jami
#62. It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
#63. Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. When you're young, you say what you feel.
When you're adult, you speak what you think.
When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.
Toba Beta
#65. You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
Brenda Ueland
#66. Mental illness doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't even have a language of love. It only knows despair. You cannot blame yourself. You can't allow temporary problems from your past to become lifelong regrets.
Kathryn Perez
#67. Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind.
Zicheng Hong
#68. I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"
Barry Hannah
#69. When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.
Steven Adler
#70. Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
Maya Angelou
#71. The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.
Samuel Beckett
#72. At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.
Christine Kenneally
#73. It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
Allison Williams
#74. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
David Bowie
#76. Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
Charlie Watts
#77. Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#78. Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.
Mabel Cheung
#79. Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
Laozi
#80. You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.
Graeme Base
#81. I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.
John Zorn
#82. If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.
Robert H. Schuller
#83. The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.
Harvey Pekar
#84. Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.
Ann Turner
#85. I continue to evolve as a human, I see things differently everyday so it's sure my songs will continue to change and it's a really good thing. It's nice to listen to my music and remember why I made it.
Marilou
#86. Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
Richard Brautigan
#87. Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.
Ruben Papian
#88. I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.
Chuck Klosterman
#89. Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.
Stewart Stafford
#90. My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
Kelsea Ballerini
#91. When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
#92. I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.
Jack Kirby
#94. People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
Marsha Norman
#95. There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
Tom Wopat
#96. The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.
Stanley Hauerwas
#97. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
Vera Nazarian
#98. Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here's a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!
James Patrick Kelly
#99. Healing happens when we learn how to listen to our body. Your body knows exactly what it needs to be radiantly healthy.
Catherine Carrigan
#100. To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence.
Chloe Thurlow
