Listen Closely Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell… — Barbara Oakley
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our… — Oskar Kokoschka
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I… — Ulysses S. Grant
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if… — Minnie Bruce Pratt
Listen closely. Thereâ€™s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I donâ€™t give a damn if my work is commercial or notâ€¦Iâ€™m the… — John Fante
Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's… — Philip Berrigan
Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate. If every woman… — Laurie Cabot
For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough,… — Mark Nepo
Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it… — Neville Goddard
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural… — Larry Sabato
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. — Javan
It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well… — Mark Nepo
Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on.… — Jack Kerouac
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end… — Edwidge Danticat
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything… — Susan Sontag
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a… — Langston Hughes
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,… — Dean Koontz
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.… — John Green

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