It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Kin Hubbard
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Po Bronson
If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.
Brian Koslow
Very few people would listen if they didn't know it was their turn next.
Robert Conklin
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
Nick Diamos
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Hugh Elliott
Listen and be led.
L. M. Heroux
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Theodore H. White
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katharine Whitehorn
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
Matt Groening
It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
Matt Groening
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
Frank Tyger
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert A. Heinlein
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
C. S. Lewis
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
Chamo, you have to go and vote tomorrow. You have to vote for Chavez; Pedro, listen man, you cannot do this to Chavez!
Rafael Caldera
It's hard to listen to people sometimes who have been to neither place. It's (also) often hard for me to understand how people who have been there would allow others to go there if they have any say about it.
Paul Mooney
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher
It can be a distraction. You tend to lose focus when you work because you're listening to that person.
Travis Price
The first time I heard his name, I stopped listening to all the things about the other candidates.
Derrick Roberts
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
He didn't want a whole bunch of people sitting around listening to him.
David Demartini
We are open to continuing talks with the hospital industry and listening to what other amendments may entail.
Anne Murphy
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Dr. John Marshall
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
Og Mandino
McDonald?s priority focus continues to be on our customers. We listen closely to them and welcome constructive feedback. We welcome an objective and fair discussion about issues important to our customers.
Walt Riker
Listen well to that, ... I didn't say they were financing me. I said they were financing those operations, that's it.
Luis Posada Carriles
If your friends are telling you to listen to these songs because they heard it from someone else, that's exactly how things catch on.
Terry Pettijohn Jr
It is really exciting to watch the students grow up. I enjoy the little kids better. The things they do and say, they impress us. It is easier for them to listen to you and what you tell them. They really take it to heart.
Robert Bates
If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.
Frank Iero
We're not stuck on a certain genre. We don't listen to things the same way. That's when we might decide to make a song of it.
Matt Phillips
It really shows that they're finally listening to the people of Greenville.
Catherine Johnson
I still consider myself young. I still listen to rock 'n' roll.
Tony Viveiros
You have flatly refused to listen to any of the proposals that we have made. In light of this, we have determined to make a proposal to acquire KT&G.
Warren Lichtenstein
Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought, man, if I had to get a gig, that's who I would like it to be with.
Aaron Parks
Jeff just didn't do anything we asked him to do. We had a Plan A and a Plan B but there's nothing you can do when your fighter won't listen to you.
Dan Birmingham
I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.
Bentzi Lieberman
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
We've got to keep going out and doing our thing. Don't listen to anything anybody's saying because it can turn bad as quickly as it turned good.
Justin Smith
She's a cat that doesn't pay any attention to us at all, but she knew enough to come into the bedroom with her back like a Halloween cat and when I wouldn't listen, bat my face.
Wendy Reed
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.
Gretchen Wilson
This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
Mariah Carey
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
Sir Henry Taylor
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
Bob Nelson
I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.
Joe Allbaugh
We're always coming away from shows and learning something new, and we always listen and learn.
Donna Hinton
They aren't listening on a lot of basic bush issues that are going to provide employment in the country.
Bob Richardson
You have to listen to the community.
Charles Snyder
He brings energy and excitement to investing by injecting the fast-money trader mentality into the buy-and-hold investor. You have to filter out some of the histrionics, but if you listen carefully, his message is to do your homework.
Scott Rothbort
It's a 'use it or lose it' year for cash. Companies are saying, 'listen, we've got to do something. We've got to buy something or invest it.
Jason Trennert
That will be something we will do a lot of is listening to students.
Geri Federico
In the long run, this could be positive. At no time did we want this to happen, of course, but we're listening to our fans and our community.
Dan Courtemanche
I've always called it a rebellion. People were rebelling against injustice. They demanded to be heard, and from that a lot of people started to listen.
Angela Leisure
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus
I'm hoping that kids listen and take (the message) in their hearts.
Hilary Putnam
I'm feeling great but they won't let an old man coach after he has a heart attack. They say it's for my own good, but I'm not too sure about that ... It's more stressful listening to games on the radio than it is coaching.
Rollie Sullivan
When you are going through something like this, you need to talk it out, to have someone listen to you. That's part of what we are here for.
Karen Jones
It was in the mid-'80s when he first came out. That's been 20 years ago, and the people listening to him then were 18 to 21.
Mark Jeffers
When Dennis has something to say, we listen pretty closely. He's been there and we haven't.
Victoria Venier
We don't always know what they're going through, and they don't always open up. I'm here to listen, but I don't sugarcoat it. If they are messing up, I tell them.
David Lawhon
Everybody loves listening to frog calls.
Charles Carlson
You pick up your chair, and move to where you want to listen.
Virginia Anderson
There have been conversations with Dexter. We've had a lot of meetings. But it is difficult to work when one party ceases to listen and keeps going with his plans.
Bernice King
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott
It took a lot of praying, listening, understanding and knowing that the day was going to come. Everything is all right. This is great.
Felicia Young
He's way sexier now. He melts your pantyhose. I could listen to him sing the alphabet.
Barbara Moses
Hi baby. Baby, you have to listen to me very carefully. I'm on a plane that's been hijacked ... I'm trying to be calm.
Ceecee Lyles
You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.
Denise Bishop
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.
Bill Summers
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon
I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
Nick Hornby
Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.
Karl Kraus
I got interested in the 8th Texas when I learned there was a captain with my name in the unit. We've all learned so much just by being here, listening and acting.
Tom Hewitt
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself.
Dr. Rollo May
There's still really good music being played now. I enjoy contemporary music. I don't like it all, but I listen to it all to keep up on the times.
Tim Carroll
We listen to a lot of NOFX, Reel Big Fish and Andrew W.K. We all have different backgrounds...I actually have a classical music background. So does Geoff (Grice), on trombone.
Aaron Triche
I wouldn't be able to give an exact time, but I'd say if you start listening to a song on the radio, you're probably going to finish that song on the same light.
Todd Simmons
I only heard what Dad was listening to at the time, ... Lucky he had good taste.
Kasey Chambers
We're not trying to cheat them. I would hope that they would listen to our explanation and give us the benefit of the doubt.
Larry Simmons
We hope the U.S. Department of Education will listen to the concerns of the states.
Pat Hamamoto
Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...
Mariah Carey
She's a natural leader, the girls listen to her. She is very strong and works out with her dad, and there's no one that will run her over.
Mark Cross
Frankly, Dickinson got what he deserved. We had to listen to his [complaints] for five straight weeks. He only had to suffer a couple of eggs on the head.
Sharon Osbourne
Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.
Marcia Wallace
It's funny and it makes for good listening, especially beating up on your boss. Listeners love it.
Jim Mandich
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.
James Nathan Miller
We feel that we need to listen to our constituents and make an informed decision.
Pamela Moore
They offer support, a listening ear, maybe someone to cry to, or a place to find out what services are available.
Becky Reichelt
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop III
He has got to listen to us and agree with us that the FAS is not enough.
John Benson
We actually do listen, and a lot of board members have some serious issues with some of these rules.
Peter Kalikow
He doesn't listen to me anyway.
Chuck Johnson
I can serve God and I can be cool. I don't want to listen to anything that's whack either.
Lawrence Williams
You have flatly refused to listen to any of the proposals that we have made.
Warren Lichtenstein
He is very involved in listening to Premier Providers and to what Intel needs to change.
Doug Phillips
They did not want to listen. They just ignored everything I said.
Peter Mitchell
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
We have been listening for alien signals for decades. It's time we started to watch for signals as well.
Louis Friedman
For me, I'm looking forward to listening to Jerry Krause speak.
Robert Davenport
I was listening to what my knee said. I knew what exercises to do, what I could tolerate and when to regress.
Dr. Nick Dinubile
You can tell an animal something and you don't have to worry about them telling anybody or judging you or anything like that. They don't really know what it means but they listen.
David Gore
You tend to have less hearing loss listening to something you like versus something that's just scrutiny.
Joseph Smaldino
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
Suzanne Massie
It may take me a month of Saturdays, but I will get there. But I'll be here every Saturday until I get there. I'll keep going until someone who can help me will listen.
Timothy Burgess
We're not here to tell you what to do. We're here to listen to you and help you with our good will with some techniques we know.
Robert Alminana
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
James Stephens
You'll be listening to it kind of in the background and then something will come on and grab you.
Jace Seavers
Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
Burning Spear
You may not be able to listen like I do, but you can learn just like I do.
Jacob Tamme
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
The President will meet the ambassador in the very near future and then he will have to listen to him and then consider the next step.
Dino Patti Djalal
You'll be hearing about pain, pain that this defendant caused, ... Listen to what the victims lost that day, the day the defendant killed.
Michael Garcia
It's our job to listen to our constituents and set the bar high for what we expect and what our constituents expect.
Milt Lewis
This is a clear message from the workers to the company to listen to them and be honest about the future.
Paul Kenny
What Kirk did may have been a surprise to some people, but it wasn't a surprise to me. A lot of people talk about how you can't do this or you can't do that, and I'll listen to it if it's coming from a football coach. If it's somebody in the media, I'm not going to pay a lot of attention to it.
Freddy Keiaho
I think it is really important that we listen to what people in the field of education have to say.
Bob Morrison
He believed listening to music was a serious endeavor.
Michael Fine
Listen to your feelings. If you don't feel good about it, really pay attention to those feelings. (Don't) take any risks. ... Just make wise decisions as to where you're going or what areas you're going to walk into.
Susan Gunnell
I've been listening to 'Cellar Door Sessions' by Miles Davis. He had an amazing line up, and it was previously unreleased.
Ryan Stasik
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
Andre Kostelanetz
Now AGL will have to listen, and that, presumably, is the idea.
Marcus Padley
It's like listening to a CD versus a tape, or watching a DVD versus a VHS. The future is digital.
Alex Horwitz
They retain information better if they experience it instead of just listening.
Karen Collins
This is a peaceful protest ... the government must listen to us.
Nitin Jadhav
We do a meet-and-greet with the senator, and then go in and listen to music.
Ann F. Lewis
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith
He was listening to officials, trusting that information they were providing was accurate.
Sally Forman
Every filmmaker, every journalist has to be arrogant. You have to say "I have the truth, you got to pay attention, you got to listen."
Bill Moyers
If you don?t listen, you?re stupid. He made it all the way. It?s the same with Myers. He?s not coach because someone put him there. He coaches because he knows what he?s doing.
Zac Bischoff
They felt happy, because their voice was heard. Now that they know everyone is going to sit down together, they feel that somebody is listening and there'll be positive changes.
Lydia Munoz
When you listen to this new amazing album and see their current live show, it's clear that Korn are here to stay. We are really happy to be in this partnership with them.
David Munns
If I was the federal government I would step in and say listen, I want those guys back in there, that know what they are doing so we have helicopters up in the sky - up in the air.
Dan Mooney
You have the ability to talk, take pictures and listen to music in one device. The convenience factor is big.
Simon Leung
This is the first public forum to ask the public's input and to make action to ensure the vitality of the San Joaquin Valley. We are all listening.
Sunne Wright Mcpeak
I usually listen to what my friends try and then try it myself but nothing has stuck.
Christina Johnson
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
William Whitelaw
Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything.
Moulin Rouge
Voters will be willing to listen to what she has to say but if (her image) continues to be the one that it was in these incidents, she won't be able to beat Bill Nelson or anybody else.
Lynda Lee Kaid
If you listen to nature, you will never loose the equilibrium.
Ivonne Sanchez
I don't know what his agenda is. I have to listen to what he has to say. I vote for the man who I think is going to do the best job for the state.
Dan Bonner
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
The female voice adds credibility. It's more pleasing to listen to and a little more convincing in the ski business.
Tom Horrocks
For me to get my hands on all that information — that's priceless. Once I've downloaded it, I can listen to what they say again and again.
Justin Kavanaugh
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
It's going to take a lot of work on his part. He is going to have to be patient and listen to me.
David Cutcliffe
The industry-leading performances of Continental and TWA can be attributed to their efforts to encourage employees to listen and respond to the needs of their passengers.
Mike Taylor
You don't show up with answers, you show up with ears and listen.
Howard King
It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got ''Backstreet.'' We put ''Boys'' on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.
Kevin Richardson
If an agent approached me tomorrow, I'd certainly listen. But if not, I plan to self publish my second book and keep on doing what I'm doing.
Darden North
Because the government didn't listen, we're asking the courts to listen.
Clayton Ruby
Preconceived notions must be eliminated from the justice system. You will not be able to prejudge him. You will have to listen to the facts and evidence.
Cynthia Ross
We're listening to the fans and they want more fem domination.
Mike Bushler
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
We will listen to the game, but work will continue. Our customer flow does slow a bit when the Cats are playing.
Daniel Gomez
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
My passion is food not politics. I just listen to people and then I go and get their iced tea.
David Roberson
I think that any excuse that Americans find to listen to Bob Dylan, especially given what they're listening to the rest of the time, I think that's probably a good thing.
Dave Marsh
Most of the players right now are telling me what to do, and I'm listening.
Kei Kamara
It's important when you come into a new school district that you spend time listening and learning.
Leslie Fausset
Learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.
Marvin Hamlisch
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
It's like whatever now. But at first it was kind of annoying, but now it's not too bad. I put my headphones on and listen to music like that all of the time. It helps me just relax.
Jeff Jordan
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