Top 100 You Better Listen Quotes
#1. When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
Ram Dass
#2. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
Brian Koppelman
#3. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
Elvis Costello
#4. It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.
Ben Heppner
#5. Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try.
Eric Taylor
#6. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, show me how to live a simple life. I don't have to do everything the hard way if I listen better to You.
Anonymous
#7. I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.
lines from Love Vs Destiny ...
Atul Purohit
#9. When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Eve Ensler
#10. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. Listen you..you.."he sputtered.
"You what ? You've already used hellion,draft girl and missy' .i can think of several more degradation,but then again im not the one trying so hard to be intimidating."
"How about you,maddending,foolish,moronic little chit ?"
"Much better !" she applauded.
Kate Noble
#12. Don't listen to them," "There's nothing wrong with you," "Just forget about it" are just words. Sure, they may make the speaker feel better, but it's hard for the person hearing them to actually let it seep into their brains and hearts.
Nyrae Dawn
#13. In fact, you will play your instrument better if you listen to your body's responses to how you are doing what you are doing.
Judith Kleinman
#14. On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.
Denis Villeneuve
#15. When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.
Jennifer Lee
#16. On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#17. It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
Johnny Damon
#18. You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. 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
#20. There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.
P. J. O'Rourke
#21. I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.
Zedd
#22. Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.
Joseph Kosinski
#23. You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.
Linwood Barclay
#24. Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
Howard Gordon
#25. Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.
Robin McKinley
#26. I got this black chick, she don't know how to act
Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap
She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap
You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Jay-Z
#27. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
D.J. MacHale
#28. Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
Geddy Lee
#29. You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Stan Getz
#30. If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
Steve Lacy
#31. When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.
Patty Loveless
#32. Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
Audrey Niffenegger
#33. One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.
Jonathan Frakes
#34. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes
Robert Kirkman
#35. I grew up around some great philosophers: they were coal miners and cowboys born in the 1920s. They were also vets of World War II. Listen to your elders, there isn't any better wisdom for you.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#36. Apology accepted, son. Y'all listen to your better angels next time. They'll save you from having to worry about all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas.
Pam Webber
#37. You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.
Laird Hamilton
#38. IF I HAD a dime for every time I've heard "We're all going to die" or "I'll kill you," I could afford a better apartment. You can only listen to so many threats of destruction, doom, or death before you start tuning them all out. So I followed the wolf out of the building, then went home.
J.C. Nelson
#39. Most people only ask questions so they can listen to themselves talk. Or hear something they are able to cope with, but please, nothing that might get the better of them. "Do you love me?" is one of those questions. There should be a total ban on it.
Nina George
#40. I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
Rain
#41. ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS ... How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking ... asking useless things ... whatever for?"
"Because I want to know.
Arlene J. Chai
#42. Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
Sidney Poitier
#44. All we'd need would be some Polyjuice Potion'
'What's what?' said Ron and Harry together.
'Snape mentioned it in class a few week ago - '
'D'you think we've got nothing better to do in Potions than listen to Snape?' muttered Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#45. There is no one better for me than you. You are what I want. You, Riley. Just the way you are.
Andrea Michelle
#46. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
#47. Now listen,' said George angrily, 'I've been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what's going on.'
'Nonsense. If there's one place in the world where nobody knows what's going on, it's a newspaper office.
Jack Iams
#48. Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#49. Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#50. I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a
good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
Elizabeth Berg
#51. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
Steven Spielberg
#52. Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?
Padgett Powell
#53. Listen, I gather you have a problem working with a psychic. Believe me, I don't like working with a jackass any better.
Kim Harrington
#54. I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Ben Webster
#55. I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
Corey Taylor
#56. Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.
Tony Robbins
#57. That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Because
Donald J. Trump
#58. Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?
John Layfield
#59. We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.
Anna Deavere Smith
#60. If a man tells you he's an asshole & that you deserve better, believe him...it's a warning. It's best you listen before he proves it to you.
April Mae Monterrosa
#61. It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
Ellen Lupton
#62. If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
Magic Johnson
#63. Him we'd have better luck getting you to listen to me.
Nora Roberts
#64. Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
Sarah Dessen
#65. If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.
Lewis Black
#66. I am the Sovereign of Iss!" the girl declared. "And you are the daughter of Ciwril Xidyla! They had better listen to us.
Elizabeth Bear
#67. Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
Wallace D. Wattles
#68. There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food ... If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.
Haruki Murakami
#69. Listen to your prospect's problems. The better you listen to what they need the better your sales relationships will be.
Timi Nadela
#70. Oh, yes, I know, I am a great deal better," said Paul, "a very great deal better. Listen, Floy; what is it the sea keeps saying?" "Nothing, dear, it is only the rolling of the waves you hear.
Charles Dickens
#71. There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.
Donald Glover
#72. Shh, listen, don't be discouraged if you don't win. It's a learning process. You'll get better with each try.
E.L. Montes
#73. My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. But if you are convinced that one mustn't listen at doors, but one may murder old women at one's pleasure, you'd better be off to America and make haste. Run, young man! There may still be time. I'm speaking sincerely. Haven't you the money? I'll give you the fare.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#75. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho
#76. I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.
Rob Riggle
#77. In a globalized economy, it's very difficult for the U.K. to go it alone. Don't listen to politicians. Politicians say if the U.K. leaves, things will be better. I'm telling you, leaving could make things worse.
Wang Jianlin
#78. You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.
Frank Langella
#79. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.
Armistead Maupin
#80. There is no better life coach than LIFE, you attend class everyday, all you have to do is listen to the message
Carl Henegan
#81. Will you have a touch of ng-ka-py?"
"You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?"
"Yes. I can talk better with it."
"Maybe I can listen better," said Samuel.
John Steinbeck
#82. There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.
Kary Mullis
#83. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.
Robin Hobb
#84. Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#85. If you want to traumatize people, treason trials are an extreme way - if there are spies running around in our midst, then we're really in trouble, we'd better just listen to the government and stop thinking.
Noam Chomsky
#86. The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#87. Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing.
J.K. Rowling
#88. Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young
#89. Listen Nosferatu , you better get your claws off me now, or I'm going to go Buffy on your undead ass.
Stella Coulson
#90. Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.
Joan Rivers
#91. In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Johannes Tauler
#92. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.
Caroline Blackwood
#93. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#94. Listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine.
And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you.
God wants so much more for your life than fine
Jim Britts
#95. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
Michael Dell
#97. I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.
Bobby Sager
#98. Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!
Andy Gray
#99. It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.
Rivers Cuomo
#100. Listen, you don't know any better so I'll just tell you. You can't try to save money by not having the right beer. You know, you can skip having medical insurance, you can buy everything you own at a swap meet but the right beer is what makes living like this possible.
Drew Carey
