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

Courage, Down, Speak

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

Education, Losing, Almost

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The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

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

Person, Words, Through

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

Society, Talk, Here

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

War, Different, Rest

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

Poetry, Real, Through

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

Music, Good, Bad

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

Great, Learned, Deal

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

Love, Music, Best

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

Person, Pessimist, Optimists

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

Beginning, Wicked, Wickedness

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

Someone, Thinking, Tell

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

Live, Powerful, Humanity

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach

Honesty, Conscience, Measure

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

Rather, Mankind, Reasons

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Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Music, Sure, Run

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

Time, Fear, Important

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Good, Best, Experience

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

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Wait, Choice, Leave

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

Two, Speak, Mouth

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

Good, Computers, Hard

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

Woman, Eyes, Her

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Women, Men, Freedom

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

Great, Person, Die

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith

Forget, Children, Watch

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon

Yourself, Give, Try

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