Top 100 Quotes About Not Listening
#1. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
William H. Whyte
#2. It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.
A.A. Milne
#3. Fascinating, said the Patrician, and went back to not listening to Dibbler. He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him.
Terry Pratchett
#4. It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.
J.D. Masterson
#6. [Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.
Ray Still
#7. It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
David Crosby
#8. You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
Oscar Wilde
#9. You're not listening," he said, exasperated. "No," she snapped. "You're not." She licked the blood from her lips. "I don't need saving.
V.E Schwab
#10. Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.
Frank Herbert
#11. If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#12. Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.
Reid Scott
#13. What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
#14. If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.
Tinie Tempah
#15. The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.
Betty White
#16. I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do
Joan Smith
#17. The proof of salvation is not listening to the Word, or having a quick emotional response to the Word, or even cultivating the Word so that it grows in a life. The proof of salvation is fruit, for as Christ said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits" (Matt. 7:16).
Warren W. Wiersbe
#18. He's fine," Kamala said. "It's not like that. You're not listening." "I am listening! You just told me he's delusional, and I'm asking - " "I DID NOT SAY HE IS DELUSIONAL. I SAID HE WAS TALKING TO HIS MOTHER." "Who is dead," Amina said gently. "Obvious." "And that's not delusional?
Mira Jacob
#19. My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.
Afrojack
#20. Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. "And why did I come here?" he wondered.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.
Brad Paisley
#22. First off, don't swear to God around me. He's not listening when I'm in the room.
Krista Ritchie
#23. If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.
Neil L. Andersen
#24. Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very literal. Sometimes you see things like "He's not the smartest man in the world! All he does is drink." Well, they're not listening very closely.
Greg Proops
#25. During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.
Ricky Martin
#26. The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
Jessica Savitch
#27. Why do want to find him so bad?' I ask after a while, but she's not listening. I watch her a bit
longer. 'Why do you want to find him so bad?' I ask again.
She blinks and comes out of her dream. She flicks the band on her wrist. 'I just do.' - Ed Skye
Cath Crowley
#28. Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!
Tom Brewer
#29. People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
James Altucher
#30. The key to perseverance is not listening when people tell you that you suck.
The Gang
#32. People say that if you talk too much about sex, you take away the mystery. I say, if you're somebody who likes to talk, talk all you want - it's not listening. You will never take away the mystery.
Mary Gaitskill
#33. I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.
Tim Gunn
#34. If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
Brother Ali
#35. Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
Merrill Markoe
#36. I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.
Nick Vujicic
#37. Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."
"How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.
A.A. Milne
#38. I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.
Mitch Hedberg
#39. Ally placed her hands over her ears and changed, La-la-la, not-listening-to-the-story-of-my-brother-proposing-while-doing-the-nasty-one-more-time, la-la-la.
Kristen Ashley
#41. Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.
Jason Mraz
#42. I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.
William Fitzsimmons
#43. For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman
#44. Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
Bill Cosby
#46. Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
J. B. Smoove
#47. I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.
Scoot McNairy
#49. William stared at him, coffee forgotten. "Oh, Jesus."
"I'm pretty sure he's not listening, but you can call him if it makes you feel better," said Chris.
Mira Grant
#50. New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.
Bill Maher
#51. Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
Pauline Oliveros
#52. Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
Karrine Steffans
#53. The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening.
50 Cent
#54. Don't be so hard on yourself," I try to tell him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of." But he's not listening and I'm wondering when I became a motivational speaker. When I made the switch from hating myself to accepting myself. When it became okay for me to choose my own life.
Tahereh Mafi
#55. We all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another - just as in a lunatic asylum.
Leo Tolstoy
#56. Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#57. Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself
Oprah Winfrey
#58. If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#59. I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#60. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#61. Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.
Burnie Burns
#62. Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
Ofra Strauss
#63. The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
Lee Iacocca
#64. I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.
Chuck Cannon
#65. I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#66. I love the confidence! I am who I am, and I know who I am. I respect what you have to say, but I'm not listening to you, and your opinion is not affecting me. I am a 49-year-old woman. Don't tell me! That's what I love!
Wendy Williams
#67. Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.
Adam Gopnik
#68. And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.
Elizabeth Scott
#69. doing God's will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.
Bill Johnson
#70. The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.
Neale Donald Walsch
#71. Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.
DaShanne Stokes
#72. When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.
George Carlin
#73. I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.
Karl Pilkington
#74. It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.
Saul Gorn
#75. When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot have the same rhythm if we are not listening to the same BEAT.
It takes someone who understands the rhythm and melody of your "heartbeat" to dance to it.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#76. Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#78. Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
Rajneesh
#79. The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
Campbell Newman
#80. The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#81. If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'
Thomas Berry
#83. The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.
Jim Al-Khalili
#84. To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.
Alan Watts
#85. When you see that earthly powers are not listening to you, that you are under siege in this city for four years and shot at without the international community doing anything to help, what should you do? Die?' he asked me in the course of our conversation. 'No, you pray to Heaven for help.
Kristiane Backer
#86. Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB ... I listen to it all. When I'm not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don't think about batting, or which bowlers I'm going to face.
Virat Kohli
#87. We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
Paul Ryan
#88. Try asking for Nyx's help."
"Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons."
"During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?"
"Not once," he said
"Then how do you know she's not listening to you?
P.C. Cast
#89. I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything .
Tina J. Richardson
#91. Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.
Judith Viorst
#92. 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
#93. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#94. The number one reason conversations stall out is that you are not listening well enough.
Max Weiss
#95. You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly.
Frederick Lenz
#96. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.
Anne Rice
#97. I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
Rick Riordan
#98. In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him.
Marian Jordan Ellis
#99. When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is the beginning of humility and the renewal of our soul's energy; as only by listening to all that is larger than us can we discover and feel our place in the Universe.
Mark Nepo
#100. Forget "minimum viable products" - ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others' successes.
Peter Thiel
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