Top 100 You Don't Listen Quotes
#1. If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.
Frank Iero
#2. I hate it when you really think you're getting something good ... and you don't listen to your dudes when you really should.
Donald Glover
#3. If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
Stephen Malkmus
#4. You know, voices can't hurt you if you don't listen to them.
Adam Scythe
#5. If you don't listen to that gentle, yet persistent voice within, you betray yourself.
Tonya Sheridan
#6. You don't listen to the equipment, you listen through the equipment.
Bruce Swedien
#7. 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
#8. In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
Jeff Raikes
#9. If you don't listen to the question entirely, then
you are going to revise your answers frequently.
Toba Beta
#10. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.
Karen Salmansohn
#11. .... I was telling you... but you don't listen to me....
Deyth Banger
#12. If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore.
Jay Asher
#13. Most of the time, I don't know whether to fight you, spank you or screw you. You make me crazy and you don't listen to me, which pisses me off.
A.P. Jensen
#14. Failure comes when you don't listen. You can't put something out there and assume it's great. It's up to us to make sure we're listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
Alan Lewis
#15. There's a FEW THINGS you need to get STRAIGHT about being GAY..."
"That's an OXYmoron."
"You'll be an OXYmoron if you don't listen. GAY men SUCK and FUCK. They don't go around falling in LOVE. At least not with every TOM, DICK and HARRY.
Giorge Leedy
#16. If the directions say to do it, we do it," said Maggie. "That's what everyone says. If you don't listen to the Monkey, he doesn't meet with you."
"Let's hope the directions don't tell us to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die," I muttered, and pulled out onto the street.
Mira Grant
#17. I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
Barack Obama
#18. Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
Junot Diaz
#19. Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon
#20. If you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
Rumer Godden
#21. You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
Barbara Bush
#22. Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
Blake Shelton
#23. If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.
Adam Lambert
#24. You don't listen do you? Go away." ... "You don't listen," he said.
Why wouldn't he just leave? I was going to burn up, anyway, with fire creeping up my arms to consume me. My eyes ached with fresh tears. I hated crying.
"But if you listened," he murmured, "I'd be dead.
Jodi Meadows
#25. There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.
Jim Tressel
#26. What did I tell you about plastic ties?
Only for humans, Julie murmured.
If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.
Ilona Andrews
#27. If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
C.S. Lewis
#28. If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place ... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
Alan Alda
#29. If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.
Sam Walton
#30. In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
Brad Wenstrup
#31. It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.
Donny Deutsch
#32. When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.
Rudy Giuliani
#33. I tell you to slow down and you don't listen and I almost love what a cunt you can be because one of these days you're gonna tie me to a bed and slap me and lord over me the way you lord over all people who get in your way. You're so revved up and I want to play with you and I do.
Caroline Kepnes
#34. Don't listen to any advice from anybody who has fewer published bestsellers than you, or anybody with more bestsellers than you. Or anybody with the exact same number of bestsellers as you. Don't listen to any advice at all, even this advice I'm telling you right now.
Dan Alatorre
#35. There are many kinds of knowledge, only one of them worth everything, only one of them not subject to opinion or degree or damage. If you come to that, you will know what I mean. If you don't, listen to someone who has.
Jan Frazier
#36. When you fall in love, you don't listen to anyone, because everything seems wrong.
M.F. Moonzajer
#37. You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.
Tim McGraw
#38. Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.
Catherine M. Wallace
#39. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.
Anna Quindlen
#40. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.
Dr. Dre
#41. If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
Dale Carnegie
#42. Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.
Shel Silverstein
#43. If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
Bill Laswell
#44. Don't listen to what people tell you because they'll try to bring you down. And don't listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.
Chris Colfer
#45. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Ross Perot
#46. Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.
Nick Cave
#47. Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
Susan Sontag
#48. Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.
William Parrish
#49. Listen to me or don't. But if you don't, you'll be dead. And then where will you be? Dead, that's where.
John Scalzi
#50. I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
Dan Brown
#51. But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.
Haruki Murakami
#52. You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#53. Listen, you know? Girls. They don't listen. They're in too much
Laura Lippman
#54. 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
#55. I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#56. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.
Ken Goldstein
#57. So you don't think I'm crazy?" "Of course not. I mean, hey, if the injections made you nuts, then wouldn't I be nuts too?" She threw him a wan smile. "We're special." Tin hat special. "Listen, all I meant was I know you're having a tough time adjusting. I am too." "I'm
Eve Langlais
#58. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood
#59. I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?
Gucci Mane
#60. Listen, Patch, I don't want to be rude, but - "
"Sure you do."
"Well, you started it!"
Lovely. Very mature.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#61. Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#62. You listen to me now and stop cutting me off. It's rude." She stopped moving and dropped her hand. "You can't tell me what I can and can't do; where I can go and who I can see."
She stopped talking so he requested, "May I speak?"
"Only if you don't piss me off when you do it,
Kristen Ashley
#63. There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should eat the food, you should listen to the music, you should be proud. And when you don't do those things, some people will look at it as if you're neglecting who you are.
Selenis Leyva
#64. When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry's way of thinking.
Robyn
#65. A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.
Lee Clow
#66. I don't listen to Justin Bieber or that crazy meat-wearin' bitch, so I guess you'll just have to do without.
J.A. Redmerski
#67. 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
#68. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.
Jeff Henderson
#69. I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
Debra Paget
#70. 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
#71. If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
Ajahn Chah
#72. If you were in class with Aristotle, he would probably come up with something like "If it is moving up, it still has some of the force of the hand on the ball." Don't listen to him. He thinks he is a Jedi.
Rhett Allain
#73. Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
Phoebe Cary
#74. Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
Adam Sandler
#75. With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.
Ellen J. Kullman
#76. People will tell you what to do. Don't listen them. Do what is right and what you love. Ultimately they would have to agree with you. Be a trend setter
Laksh Kishore
#77. 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
#79. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Pearl Zhu
#80. Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.
Greg Behrendt
#81. The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.
George W. Bush
#82. Don't listen to him." Mabel waved a hand in disregard. "He's gone and lost his mind since the last time you paid us a visit. All his marbles fell out; rolled under the tables and counters, and he's too old to bend down and find them.
Ania Ahlborn
#83. Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.
Tim Ferriss
#84. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.
Gerard Way
#85. You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.
Bret Easton Ellis
#86. What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
Rick Pitino
#87. Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
Shawn Wayans
#88. Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
Bear Grylls
#89. Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#90. To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Kevin Heath
#91. Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
Ernest Hemingway,
#92. George Clooney likes to talk about himself in the third person mostly. He's always enjoyed it. Listen, I don't like to think in those terms, where you just have to completely separate yourself one from the other.
George Clooney
#93. Don't Listen To What People Tell You... Listen To Your Soul And Pickle Juice.
Hannah Haynes
#94. 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
#95. Exactly what don't I think is beautiful? Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God. Anything.
J.D. Salinger
#96. Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?
Eoin Colfer
#97. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Fran Lebowitz
#98. 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
#99. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]
Helen Dunmore
#100. Listen, Harr,y can I have a go on it? Can I?"
"I don't think anyone should ride that broom just yet!" said Hermoine shrilly.
Harry and Ron looked at her.
"What d'you think Harry's going to do with it - sweep the floor?" said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
