L Quotes
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“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”
“Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.”
“Listen with intent to learn”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.”
“Listen with your gut, not your head.”
“Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.”
“Listen with your heart, you will understand.”
“Listen with your mouth closed.”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.”
“Listen, you don't want me. Only you don't know it. You just think you do. I've been thrown out of a lot of places.”
Source: In the Cut
“Listen,
You fire breathing dragon,
With a furnace in your mouth
and stardust in your marrow,
You belong where you are,
You’ve lived in the ancient deities
and will continue to live in the rubble long after the last God is forgotten.
All those times,
You have found yourself wailing at the moon,
Remember,
Your bones are awakening to the pagan blood spilt in the name of new Gods.
The wilderness calling is not madness,
It is Mother Gaea, summoning you home.”
“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”
“Listen you little turd, don’t tell me my business. It’s not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green … Yikes, that stings!”
“Listen, you might as well learn now that life’s nothin’ but a dirt sandwich and save yourself a lot of time.”
Source: The Cases Nobody Wanted
“Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen again any how.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Listen! You’ve gotta know your shit’s phenomenal regardless of how many views it’s getting. You can’t stop posting and let little miss algorithm fuck up your rhythm just because it’s that time of the month and she’s not feeling your shit or giving you any attention at the moment.
Stay in your power and don’t let it make you doubt yourself or shrink down and shrink back. Take up space and be the magical motherfucker you know you are.
It’s not about the views. It’s about the enormous impact you leave on at least one person’s psyche that can never be calculated. It’s not about the views. It’s about advancing your self expression, your self expansion and your personal evolution into an unstoppable force, not because the numbers validated you, but because you finally broke free from letting the numbers torture, silence and intimidate you, like you’re their fucking captive.”
“Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.”
“Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!”
“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Source: P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains
“Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!”
“Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!”
“listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.”
“Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.”
“Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.”
“Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!”
“Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from.”
“Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.”
Source: The dumpling field: haiku of Issa
“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
“Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.”
“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.”
Source: Sula
“Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very important.”
“Listen, Bernie Sanders talks about how Washington is corrupt, both parties are in bed with the lobbyists and special interests. I think he's exactly right.”
“Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.”
“Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the Fists of Fury. Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.”
“Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.”
Source: Second April: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.”
Source: The novels of Dashiell Hammett
“Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.”
“Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.”
“Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.”
“Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.”
“Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.”
Source: The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)
“Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.”
“Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
“Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.”
Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.”
“Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.”
“Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what do you say? And if that's appropriate to say with your friends, why is it not appropriate anywhere else. Like I hate those people who judge me and are hypocrites.”