Listen To Me Quotes

• You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Change

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

  Alfred Brendel

  I Hate You, Listening Ear, Effective Listening

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• I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

  Larry King

  Good Morning, Good Day, Effective Listening

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• I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Sound, Cry

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Effective Listening

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

  Ron White

  Talking, Long, People

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• Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gentleman

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• Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Years, People

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• I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.

  ASAP Rocky

  Thinking, People, Starting

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• If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

  Emma Roberts

  Girlfriend, Bad Day, Bothering You

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• Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Focus, Needs, Breakfast

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.241, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sleep, Needs, Lice

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• I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colors stretched against the wind. Listen to me: these men know nothing of love. You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Lying, Love You

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.56, Penguin

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• Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.

  Cindy Gerard

  Heart, Choices, Silence

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• But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

  Deb Caletti

  Real, Toilets, Middle Of Nowhere

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Nikolai Gogol (1981). “Diary of a Madman: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

  Lauren Kate

  Numbers, Insane, Number 2

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• You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Doubt, Rowing

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You didn't listen to me," Lan whispered. One last lesson. The hardest. Demandred struck, and Lan saw his opening. Lan lunged forward placing Demandred's sword point against his own side and ramming himself forward onto it. "I did not come here to win," Lan whispered, smiling. "I came here to kill you. Death is lighter than a feather." Demandred's eyes opened wide, and he tried to pull back. Too late. Lan's sword took him straight though the throat.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Winning, Too Late

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• Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Stupid, Eye, People

  Jonathan Lethem (2008). “You Don't Love Me Yet”, p.205, Vintage

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• The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

  Christopher Paolini

  Jobs, Wall, Tired

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1435, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

  Homer

  Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad

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• It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

  A. A. Milne

  Summer, Listening, Sound

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.87, Egmont UK

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• It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Mean, Reality

  "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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