[ listen Quotes ]

Showing search results for Listen Quotes - 70 quotes about Listen - Dictionary Quotes

70 quotes

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Listening
Germain G. Glien

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 524 votes

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Doubt
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 634 votes

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Silence
Thomas Hardy

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1094 votes

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Experts
Robert Heinlein

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 668 votes

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Listening
Ernest Hemingway

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 681 votes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Wisdom
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 493 votes

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Entertainment
Kin Hubbard

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 540 votes

When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Listening
Victor Hugo

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 582 votes

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
Listening
Jewish Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 667 votes

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
Impossibility
Florence Griffith Joyner

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 612 votes

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
News
Milan Kundera

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 722 votes

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Flattery
Jean De La Fontaine

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1088 votes

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Wisdom
Doug Larson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 623 votes

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Conversation
Fran Lebowitz

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 613 votes

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
Coaches and Coaching
John Madden

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 618 votes

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Opinions
Madonna

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 565 votes

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Extravagance
Imelda Marcos

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 699 votes

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Pessimism
Don Marquis

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 605 votes

Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Listening
John Marshall

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 656 votes

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
Listening
Walter Matthau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 625 votes

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
Listening
Mignon McLaughlin

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 607 votes

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
Listening
Wilson Mizner

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 663 votes

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 712 votes

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.
Fear
George S. Patton

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 509 votes

You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Music
Luciano Pavarotti

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 556 votes

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun