Top 100 We Listen Quotes
#1. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
L. Ron Hubbard
#2. How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
Confucius
#3. so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. 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
#5. I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
Carrie Brownstein
#6. Murdered? Somebody murdered him?" Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, "NSA, Our Customer Service Pledge: You Talk, We Listen.
John Sandford
#7. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#8. We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us.
David Almond
#9. When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.
Gary Chapman
#10. The more we listen to God's voice, the easier it is to recognize when He speaks to us.
Larry Burkett
#11. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#12. My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.
Kelsea Ballerini
#13. If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.
Matt Damon
#14. Some nights we listen to the radio just to hear someone else say I love you
Joe Bozic
#15. The more we listen to our hearts, the better our hearts' message comes through loud and clear and the more likely we are to be able to follow what our heart is telling us.
Joe Plumeri
#16. We listen. We listen. We move. We sit. It rains. The sun comes out. (there stands a friend) We listen. We laugh. We share. We sit. We dance. It rains. There stands a friend. We listen. We share. We sit. We dance. The sun comes up. There. I stand, a friend.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#17. And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
Madeleine L'Engle
#18. There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
#19. Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.
Mark Nepo
#20. Will we listen to "Satan, the author of all lies ... ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and righteousness?"
Richard C. Edgley
#21. We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.
Andy Stanley
#22. We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
Andre Kostelanetz
#23. At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.
Gregor Von Rezzori
#24. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey
#25. It is where we embrace our questions ... Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?
Terry Tempest Williams
#27. We listen, we praise, we walk in the direction of God's voice, and we obey. It's that simple. Sometimes that means we get to unbind and celebrate. Sometimes it means we don't.
Angie Smith
#28. I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.
Bobby McFerrin
#29. If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams
#30. A joyful life is when we listen to the desires of our heart and mind, and we never forget to have a chuckle or two, a day.
Jo-Ann L. Tremblay
#31. We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.
Fred Rogers
#32. We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
Ben Kingsley
#33. If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.
Richard Bach
#35. With Anna gone, we listen for footfalls, each of us avoiding the other with an intense concentration. Occasionally we cross paths by accident, our bubbles of personal space like a Venn diagram, becoming darker where they overlap.
Dad left.
Anna is gone.
I have never been here.
Mindy McGinnis
#36. When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
Robert M. Hutchins
#37. 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
#38. For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.
Mark Nepo
#39. When our Shepherd breaks our spiritual leg, the recovery can be oh, so sweet as we listen for His voice! EL
Evinda Lepins
#40. Real communication occurs ... when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about.
Carl Rogers
#41. In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
#42. The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.
David Lloyd-Jones
#43. In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#44. It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.
Michelle Anthony
#45. All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Stanley Crouch
#46. We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
Pliny The Elder
#47. Our heats want the good to win. We're still afraid, we still make mistakes, but if we listen to what our hearts want, we will find the right way.
C.C. Hunter
#48. The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.
Geoffrey O'Brien
#49. We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
William Gibson
#50. Ninety percent of the songs and movies we listen to and see are based on love. We like to talk most about the things we don't have.
Arathi Menon
#51. One of the systems we use is called the LATTE method. We Listen to the customer, Acknowledge their complaint, Take action by solving the problem, Thank them, and then Explain why the problem occurred.5.19
Charles Duhigg
#52. We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.
Adriana Trigiani
#53. We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.
Robert Breault
#54. I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.
H.M. Tomlinson
#55. We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
Benny Green
#57. If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.
Robert L. Wise
#58. NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.
Caryl Churchill
#59. A good day's filming at last ... John Horton's rabbit effects are superb. A really vicious white rabbit, which bites Sir Bor's head off. Much of the ground lost over the week is made up. We listen to the Cup Final in between fighting the rabbit
Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0.
Michael Palin
#60. The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.
Jodi Picoult
#61. At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
Celine Dion
#62. Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
John Cage
#63. Satan is screaming lies over us all day long. And God whispers the truth is a still, small voice. So often the voice we listen to most is the one we hear loudest.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#64. Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood?
Mark Nepo
#65. We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands.
Jean-Michel Maulpoix
#66. The more we listen to ourselves and make positive changes based on what we discover, the more interesting life becomes.
Louise Hay
#67. When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
Don Bluth
#69. We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord ... until we look upon the Lord ... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?
Mark Hart
#70. Now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that, recognizing that when any of us mother
when we listen, nuture, nourish, protect
we're doing sacred work.
Shauna Niequist
#71. The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.
Herbie Hancock
#73. Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.
N. T. Wright
#74. So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups.
Jean Vanier
#75. If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way.
Ronald Reagan
#76. I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past - the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers - or from the future - the possibilities we would be switching off.
Matt Haig
#77. When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.
Chris Marlow
#78. With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.
Lisa Loeb
#79. Education is always very important. Ultrasound is, I think, quite a niche market. We know our customers very well. We listen to a lot of feedback and they're more than happy to tell us their thoughts.
Glen Davis
#81. We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.
Michael Jackson
#82. We listen to it, and we do not hear it, and we name it 'the Inaudible.
Lao-Tzu
#83. The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
Alan Green
#84. We ask the following questions before we listen to gossip: What is your reason for telling me this? Where did you get your information? Have you gone directly to the source? Have you personally checked out all the facts? Can I quote you if I check this out?2
Neil T. Anderson
#85. I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.
Laverne Cox
#86. ...when we listen to the Spirit, we hear a deeper sound, a different beat. ...Living a spiritually mature life requires listening to God's voice within and among us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#87. In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.
Constantin Stanislavski
#88. As Abraham Lincoln said, "We listen to the better angels of our nature so our life will have more order and success." Vic:
Jim Rohn
#89. One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits ... That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.
Joel Osteen
#90. It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.
Seymour Cassel
#91. We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.
Deepak Chopra
#92. We refuse to dismiss the experts, we listen to them ... they all agree that Britain is better off in, you are better off in.
Ruth Davidson
#93. When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.
Emily Dickinson
#94. When we listen with the ear of our heart (full body listening), we experience our prophetic nature and share our messages with the world.
Vanessa F. Hurst
#95. Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.
Terry Tempest Williams
#96. We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
Barbara Deming
#97. Other people feel love when we listen without judging and accept them without demanding change. We all desperately require these basic needs. When we can do this for another, we are indeed that person's angel.
David W. Earle
#98. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#99. I don't like country music."
"No one does. We listen to it to piss off other people.
Bijou Hunter
#100. It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
Kate Atkinson
