Top 100 Never Listen To Quotes

#1. If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.

Michael Mullen

#2. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.

Barack Obama

#3. I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

Sandra Bernhard

#4. If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Josh Billings

#5. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

Steve Goodier

#6. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

Alec Douglas-Home

#7. I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality.

Steve Dildarian

#8. Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

Michael Masser

#9. Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Steven Tyler

#10. Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

#12. Man, Fury was right. You should never trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. I should have listened to you. You told me Petra was a three-wolf-humping bitch, but did I listen? (Fang)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

Anthony Browne

#14. Peter smiles at me, shaking his head. Behind the smile I can see he's scared as I am. Blood drips onto his lips. "You never did listen to my orders," he said.
I smiled back. "Aren't you glad you'll have company?

Dan Krokos

#15. Relationships never work well when you only listen to yourself.

Richard Foth

#16. I [Jesus] tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

Anonymous

#17. Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich ... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Michael Moore

#18. I always freak out when people ask me about my favorite bands or my five favorite records, I just can never do that because it goes through different waves and sometimes you want to listen to something and at other times you want to listen to something else so I don't know.

John Bush

#19. It's a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#20. Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.

Sheik

#21. It's never too late to stop regretting. It's never too late to see your present self as the young one and to listen to the person you hope to become.

Hugh Howey

#22. When Rick Perry was told about Kim Jong Il, he said, 'I never heard of him, but then again, I don't listen to that rap.'

Jay Leno

#23. Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.

Nina Nesbitt

#25. Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

Miguel Ruiz

#26. When you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#27. [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

George Will

#28. For he who has once had to listen will listen always, whether he knows he will never hear anything again, or whether he does not. In other words, they like other words, no doubt about it, silence once broken will never again be whole.

Samuel Beckett

#29. More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Andrew Young

#30. So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

Christian Bale

#31. You were listening at the door, Gigi!"
"No, Grandmamma."
"Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

Colette

#32. Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

John Hodgman

#33. There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

Mark Nepo

#34. I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Andrew Young

#35. Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I'm writing.

Haruki Murakami

#36. We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Ali Smith

#37. I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Gabriel Mann

#38. Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.

Brad Barkley

#39. 17You, LORD, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry, 18defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.

Anonymous

#40. I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)

Keri Arthur

#41. I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even if it contains more than a grain of truth.

Robin Stern

#42. The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

Robert Young

#43. Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

Pat Martin

#44. I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

Raymond E. Feist

#45. Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.

Hari Kunzru

#46. I keep telling myself sensible things, but I never seem to listen!

K. Farrell St. Germain

#47. no secrets will be offered up immediately, Carol cautions. "You must listen to what they never say.

Jenny Nordberg

#48. Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#49. To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

Pope Francis

#50. I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

David Hockney

#51. My audience is a huge part of my success, so I see us as a team. They send me tons of song requests every day. Some of the songs I've never heard before, but I listen to them and then pick the ones that I love.

Lindsey Stirling

#52. Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

Trent Reznor

#53. Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Dean Bakopoulos

#54. Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises.

Rumi

#55. The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

Artie Shaw

#56. I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

Ndamukong Suh

#57. I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

John Frusciante

#58. One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

Tiger Woods

#59. But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Stephen Greenblatt

#60. I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side ... allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Abraham Lincoln

#61. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

#62. I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Dan Auerbach

#63. Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver.

L.M. Montgomery

#64. Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Ernest Hemingway,

#65. I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#66. Why should I listen to my heart ?
Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you .

Paulo Coelho

#67. I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Ben Fountain

#68. I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

Rachel Field

#69. I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.

Benedetta Tagliabue

#70. Sometimes all you need to do is just hold on to yourself! Look at the stars in the sky, listen to the sweet murmurings of the breeze, inhale the fragrance of the night, and you will feel fine!

Avijeet Das

#71. One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Lou Reed

#72. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway,

#73. I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes

Robin Sloan

#74. I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

Peter Tork

#75. I almost never listen to the radio.

Bjarke Ingels

#76. Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Mariah Carey

#77. When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

Leon Brown

#78. I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Stephanie Klein

#79. The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Howard Zinn

#80. Go away," he said. "Do you know you've almost no clothes on?"
"Never mind. I need - "
"Never mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can 'never mind.' A nearly naked woman isn't one of them.

Loretta Chase

#81. My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#82. Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Sam Walton

#83. The only way your dream will never come true is if you choose not to listen to it.

Michelle Muriel

#84. My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#85. I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

John Hurt

#86. 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

#87. I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Tim Robbins

#88. You got to wrestle with your conscience. You got to listen to people. It doesn't come so easy to me that this is right and that's wrong. It's never that simple.

George H. W. Bush

#89. I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

Crystal Woods

#90. Promise One: Love and listen to my father. This whole time I've been obeying his every word, following all the rules, saying all the right things. But I never did what he really wanted all along.
Because I was never really listening.

Jackson Pearce

#91. Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

Brian May

#92. It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Anna Wickham

#93. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

#94. To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

Bill Bryson

#95. I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.

Maria Bamford

#96. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Gary Hopkins

#97. I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

Fatima Robinson

#98. I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

Kendall Jenner

#99. We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

Shirley Manson

#100. Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?

Sean Kennedy

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