Top 100 Quotes About Listens
#1. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
Danielle Dax
#5. 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
#6. Every adult has the heart of a child. Not every adult listens deep enough.
Matthew Donnelly
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#15. The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.
John McPhee
#17. Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.
Girl slips on headphones. World gone.
Kathleen Glasgow
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. One day you gonna find out that you can't shout... nobody does listens to you.
Deyth Banger
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
Karl Barth
#26. So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?
Gertrude Berg
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.
Larry Burkett
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned
Frank Herbert
#41. 33 but s whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be t at ease, without dread of disaster.
Anonymous
#42. Listening is central to the development of humility. Arrogance speaks. Humility listens.
Brad Lomenick
#43. Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
Patricia Briggs
#45. It is beyond comprehension who the waves are roaring for, who listens to them at nights here, what they want, and finally, who they would roar for when I was gone.
Haruki Murakami
#46. She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.
Truth Devour
#47. She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.
Chris Marker
#48. The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. JOHN 3:29
Anne Graham Lotz
#49. Nobody ever listens. People will tell you whatever they want to hear themselves say. Nobody cares if you feel better, just so long as they do.
David Elliott
#50. The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
Seneca The Younger
#51. 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
#52. There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.
Mitch Lucker
#53. To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.
Pierre Daninos
#54. Prayer is two way chatting zone between you and God. You chat and listen, He listens and He answers.
Euginia Herlihy
#55. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Mignon McLaughlin
#56. But I tell you what it is; an honest and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on eating' you up.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#57. My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.
Wynter Gordon
#58. Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
William Faulkner
#59. When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#60. The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
Mignon McLaughlin
#61. Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#62. Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
Thomas Hughes
#63. Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
Casey Wilson
#64. The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
Laozi
#65. I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.
Julie London
#66. Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.
Wesley Morris
#67. Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Carl Sandburg
#68. ... it does clarify a tough to get it spoken, even if no one listens.
John Steinbeck
#69. Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.
Honore De Balzac
#70. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
Kahlil Gibran
#71. My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
Antonio Machado
#72. He waits until dark. Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and the transmitter in the attic. His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight . . .
Anthony Doerr
#73. If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
James A. Baldwin
#75. I have to resort to email, and email is not enough. I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. Hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice.
David Levithan
#76. True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Kiana Tom
#77. 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
#78. A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike ... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.
Bill Cosby
#79. Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.
Elvis Costello
#80. All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
Mark Hoppus
#81. Within the body there is played
Music unending, though without stringed instruments
That music of the Word pervades the entire creation
Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
Kabir
#82. Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Elias Canetti
#83. The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
Phyllis McGinley
#84. A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe
#85. History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
Erik Qualman
#86. A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
Todd Park
#87. The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.
Paulo Coelho
#88. Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
Francis Chan
#89. Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.
Karen Blixen
#90. A fool tries to shut others' mouth
instead of listens to his own heart.
Toba Beta
#91. I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks
#92. Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Oscar Wilde
#93. Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
Rita Mae Brown
#94. The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank
#95. When you take a solemn oath your heart and soul listens, then perception of consciousness and unity comes.
Vasilios Karpos
#96. Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.
Emily Andrews
#97. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
Lenny Kravitz
#98. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
Hesiod
#99. It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Elbert Hubbard
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