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Quotes including the word “listen”.

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Akhmatova

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

Isaac Asimov

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Brendan Behan

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Bregovic

We do not go to concerts just to listen to music. It is the human need to be together. It is our basic need.

Cavafy

Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great.

Ray Charles

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Dante

He listens well who takes notes.

Diogenes

We have two ears and one tongue so that we should listen more and talk less.

Epictetus

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

Epicurus

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

Fontaine

Every flatterer lives at the expense of those who listen to him.

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Hemingway

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Hermann Hesse

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Lucian

“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand and read all the time, you do not under­stand a single thing that you read, but you are like the donkey that listens to the lyre and wags his ears.

Pavarotti

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Sylvia Plath

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

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Carl Sandburg

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen.

Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.