Quotes of Listen - somelinesforyou

“ But yet she listen'd — 'tis enough — Who listens once will listen twice;Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,And one refusal no rebuff. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ”

- Simone Weil

“ It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only he who listens can speak. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. ”

- Nick Diamos

“ None so deaf as those that will not hear. ”

- Matthew

“ Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Well done is better than well said. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ No man ever listened himself out of a job. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. ”

- George W. Bush

“ Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. ”

- Earl Wilson

“ We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ”

- Epictetus

“ Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. - Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ I don't want to hear about my death. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening. ”

- Marge Piercy

“ Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be! ”

- James Dillet Freeman

“ One who cares is one who listens. ”

- Richard J. Clarke

“ Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem. ”

- Mal Pancoast

“ Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The less you talk, the more you're listened to. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! ”

- Tom Lehrer

“ There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall! ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you don't say. ”

- Unknown

“ What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live — with your self-respect alive and growing. ”

- Maxwell Maltz
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