Listens Well Quotes

#1. But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Fernando Flores

#2. The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way. If the conductor listens well, the musicians listen each other better. The conductor can in effect impose a certain kind of listening for everybody.

Laurence Equilbey

#3. I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.

Meg Whitman

#4. He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Vaclav Havel

#6. Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Jean De La Fontaine

#7. When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.'12

Eugene H. Peterson

#8. A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.

Larry Burkett

#9. God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Horace Bushnell

#10. A student who listens gains more than a sage who speaks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

Townes Van Zandt

#12. We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.

Pope Francis

#13. I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Livy

#14. Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Aaron Carter

#15. It is she who listens to the rest of the world who fails, and it is she who has enough confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds.

Sophia Amoruso

#16. The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Rachel Blanchard

#17. The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

Andre Gide

#18. The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

Frank Herbert

#20. 33 but s whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be t at ease, without dread of disaster.

Anonymous

#21. Listening is central to the development of humility. Arrogance speaks. Humility listens.

Brad Lomenick

#22. There was an exceeding good concert, but too much talking to hear it well. Indeed I am quite astonished to find how little music is attended to in silence; for, though every body seems to admire, hardly any body listens.

Fanny Burney

#23. I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

Florence Harding

#24. It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

#26. Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

Shaun Hick

#27. Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

Michael Moorer

#28. I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.

Keri Hulme

#29. 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

#30. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#31. Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started.

Nikki Sixx

#32. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

Immanuel Kant

#33. I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

Danielle Dax

#34. In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

John Eaton

#35. Every adult has the heart of a child. Not every adult listens deep enough.

Matthew Donnelly

#36. When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

Robert I. Sutton

#37. When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.

Rose Tremain

#38. Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.

Milan Kundera

#39. Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

Rick Warren

#40. Because no one ever listens to the dog.

Dori Hillestad Butler

#41. So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

Gertrude Berg

#42. Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

Dave Matthews

#43. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.

Raphael Zernoff

#44. The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

John McPhee

#45. The thing is, the heart never listens to the brain's logic,

Brittainy C. Cherry

#46. Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headphones. World gone.

Kathleen Glasgow

#47. If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

David Byrne

#48. The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

David Eagleman

#49. That's the song for the herbs?" "Mm-hmm." "It makes them happy?" "It makes them work," the woman says. "Prayer puts the world to work. The action you take is your expression of intent. The world listens. And then works. Go

Daniel Jose Older

#50. The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, inhales without smelling, and talks without thinking." - Leonardo da Vinci Benefits

Dharma Hazari

#51. You think she'll be able to talk sense into him?" she asked. "His sister?"
"If he listens to anyone, it would be her."
"That's sweet," said Maia. "That he loves his sister like that."
"Yeah," Simon said. "It's precious

Cassandra Clare

#52. God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Karl Barth