Listened Quotes

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury

Love, Friendship, Time

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Long

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success, Best, Advice

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger

Friends, Strange, Creative

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

Heart, Deep, Old

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

Music, Heart, Long

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Neil Young

Music, Today, Trying

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
Michael Ende

Rain, Fashion, After

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
Enrico Fermi

Confused, Before, Here

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
Michael Caine

Life, Time, Wanted

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
Billy Joel

Music, Today, American

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp

Today, Ignorant, Nobody

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Wrong, Decisions, Almost

Throughout my years of public service, I've listened to the voices of the gay and lesbian community, whether through whispered confidences or public declarations. I understand what it truly means to say that all people should be treated equally, and I'll always stand up for fair and equal treatment of gay and lesbian Americans.
Mark Udall

Gay, Through, Understand

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
Emma Thompson

Children, Advice, Half

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Good, Others, Become

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
Bono

Mad, Stars, Movie

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.
Buddy Rich

Else, Playing, Everybody

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden Stiers

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
Susan Orlean

Music, Past, Found

My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
Bindi Irwin

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
Heath Ledger

Around, Stuff, Running

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy Winehouse

Great, Nothing, Writing

I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
Lenny Kravitz

Remember, Growing, Changed

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
Ellie Goulding

Human, Two, Talk

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
will.i.am

Single, Song, Memory

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Joaquin Phoenix

Music, Him, Country

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