Listen To You Quotes

#1. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.

Ken Goldstein

#2. The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

David W Augsburger

#3. You're important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. Some things in our lives, we think about, we hope for, we dream of, we half believe. But some we just know. And what I know, Laura, is that if you practise and learn to play this instrument, the day will come when angels stop and listen to you.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#5. I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

Hosni Mubarak

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

Jerome K. Jerome

#9. If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

George Lois

#10. People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Oh sister," Jackal mocked, pretending to wipe away a tear. "Listen to you, sounding just like a real vampire. I'm so proud.

Julie Kagawa

#12. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

Christina Dodd

#13. I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?

Nouriel Roubini

#14. There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#15. Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,
why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

Pietro Metastasio

#16. When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

Confucius

#17. I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

Douglas Coupland

#18. When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

Sylvester Stallone

#19. When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

Tony Benn

#20. Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

William Wharton

#22. I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'

Adele

#23. I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

George Lucas

#24. The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Jackie Chan

#25. A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.

Andre Agassi

#26. I'll be honest. We copied everyone ... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

Maurice Gibb

#27. Am I talking too much? He paused, staring into my eyes, genuine worry coloring his face.
I shook my head. No, I thought, I'd listen to you talk about nearly anything. You make phone calls sound like an adventure.

Kiera Cass

#28. Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Things: your perspective or beliefs about yourself, and a quality we can call "like-ability." Like-ability can be defined as the ability to build rapport so that others listen to you. We listen to the people we like.

Andy Andrews

#30. Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.

Toby Keith

#31. Your voice is so mellifluous that I can listen to you forever.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

Kay Robertson

#33. I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know. I see that you are in trouble. I watch and listen to you. I want to help, but you won't let me. So be it. I love you still. Do what you will, I shall watch over you.

Timothy Findley

#34. I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore?

Ilona Andrews

#35. If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

Gloria Steinem

#36. Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

Anonymous

#37. If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Zig Ziglar

#38. Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.

Patterson Hood

#39. Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Anne Lamott

#40. If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.

Bob Phillips

#41. I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.'
She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.

Sherry Thomas

#42. If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.

Sharon Gannon

#43. Puck, I know you're awake. We're leaving." "Oh, thank God." Puck snorted and hopped to his feet. "I was afraid I'd have to listen to you two slobber all morning. I'm already feeling slightly sick - please don't make it worse.

Julie Kagawa

#44. It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

Alex Scally

#45. I guess he had listened to more beefs and more problems from more people than any of us. A guy that'll really listen to you, listen and care about what you're saying, is something rare.

S.E. Hinton

#46. In this country you can say what you like
because no one will listen to you anyway

Margaret Atwood

#47. I want to sleep next to you and listen to you exist.

Karin Tanabe

#48. Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.

Larry Weber

#49. What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn't a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.

Sophia McDougall

#50. Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman" ... the last time you really inspired anyone
was when you were dead.

Geoff Johns

#51. Stay here with us," said the voice from the figure at the end of the room. "We will listen to you and play with you and laugh with you. Your other mother will build whole worlds for you to explore, and tear them down every night when you are done.

Neil Gaiman

#52. Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

Kurt Braunohler

#53. Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum

#54. I look at you, angel, and I want you so badly. I want to be with you, listen to you, talk to you. I want to hear you laugh and hold you when you cry. I want to sit next to you, breathe the same air, share the same life. I want to wake up to you like this every day forever. I want you.

Sylvia Day

#55. And just a tip, if she won't listen to you, write your feeling down. Girls like letters." ~Christine, Leo's Chance, Ch.29

Mia Sheridan

#56. Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.

Tony Robbins

#57. If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

Les Brown

#58. It doesn't matter whether I can repair it or not. I want to be part of your life, and that also means the tough moments. I may not be able to solve the situation, but I can sure as hell listen to you. Hold you. Offer you my support. Shoulder your burdens. Soothe your pain.

Elle Aycart

#59. If you're lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in - but not if you're Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you're right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up.

Megan Amram

#60. If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Mario Batali

#61. There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

Stephen Colbert

#62. Of its usage. The Creator loves the smell of sweetgrass. If you smoke the pipe and pray and then put sweetgrass on the fire, he will listen to you.

Kent Nerburn

#63. The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

Bo Burnham

#64. If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

Marilyn Manson

#65. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, remind me to pray to You often. Remind me to stop and listen to You. Remind me that You love me very much.

Anonymous

#66. Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

Anthony Fauci

#67. Well, when the fear of death seizes you - when the dark thoughts come - you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, 'I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.

Brandon Sanderson

#68. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Fran Lebowitz

#69. When I listen to you, God
when I do what you ask me to,
I am like a tree
planted by a river,
a tree full of fruit
with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

#70. People will listen to you when you become the 'Embodiment of Love' [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the 'Embodiment of Love'? When you do not look for laws or rules; When you do not see anyone at fault.

Dada Bhagwan

#71. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.

Barack Obama

#72. The older you get, the more people think they have to listen to you.

Bill Engvall

#73. There are times you feel the world has turned its back on you, you feel so alone, no one to turn to. There is one person who's willing to listen to you and He's always with you. Just say the word and He'll answer every question you have.

Euginia Herlihy

#74. Demetri: I won't abandon you. I'm sure as hell not going to listen to you, and you can damn well know that I'm going to fight for you.

Rachel Van Dyken

#75. You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Miriam Makeba

#76. If you can make one person listen to you, you can make the world Hear you.

Anthony Kong

#77. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

Oscar Peterson

#78. If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.

Mac Miller

#79. There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

P. J. O'Rourke

#80. Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

Robert Anton Wilson

#81. You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#82. As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

John Anderson

#83. My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

James Durbin

#84. Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. All right. You need to vent, so I'll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard -

Gena Showalter

#85. Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

Itzhak Perlman

#86. Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids - not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Rich Mullins

#87. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

David Miscavige

#88. You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

Hans Rosling

#89. I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

Gucci Mane

#90. There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you - not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#91. When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.

Robyn

#92. Zane raised his brow. "Didn't I say that yesterday?" he asked, forcing
himself to be patient. Somehow.
"You say that like you think I listen to you," Ty responded instantly, a
smile pulling at his lips.

Abigail Roux

#93. The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

George Benson

#94. To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

Kevin Heath

#95. The whole world is desperate to listen to you when you find your unique voice. Your uniqueness that attracts people, not your playing safe.

Assegid Habtewold

#96. I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Marilyn Manson

#97. You are Day's weakness, June. He'll listen to you.

Marie Lu

#98. They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

Mike Epps

#99. Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

Auliq Ice

#100. No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

Michael Jackson