Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Confucius

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

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

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran

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

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

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
Bob Marley

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
Jim Morrison

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob Dylan

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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