No One Listening Quotes

• The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

  Evan Esar

  Listening, Sides, Argument

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• People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

  Stephen Covey

  Talking, People, Empathy

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• Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

  Melina Marchetta

  Listening, Tone, Excuse

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• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Business, Communication, Silence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.12, BookBaby

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Listening, Literature

  Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.

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• Sing like no one is listening.
  Love like you’ve never been hurt.
  Dance like nobody’s watching,
  and live like it’s heaven on earth.

  Susanna Clarke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Sing like there's nobody listening,
  And live like it's heaven on earth.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Witty, Talking, Listening

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• Love like you'll never be hurt.

  William Watson Purkey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

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• Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

  John Philip Sousa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

  Elvis Costello

  Mother, Zero, Father

  Song: Less Than Zero, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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