L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Listening to other women's stories this year has given me confirmation, finally, that our expectations have been absurd. So many women I spoke with--objectively successful women--felt ashamed of their perceived failures.
What if we're not failures? What if what we've done is good? At any rate, maybe it's good enough.”
Source: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
“Listening to others can be hard. It is even harder if we don’t learn to listen to ourselves”
Source: The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others
“Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.”
“Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them - especially when they're wrong.”
“listening to Pastor Bob talk about mercy and redemption, I am filled with hope. Not the kind of expectation that comes from knowing you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but the trust that comes from utter failure, from knowing you are pathetic and small and you’ve got no place to look but up.”
Source: Take Me There
“Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says, "This is a great book but I didn't like it." Taking a little time to think about why this might be has been very liberating.”
“Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.”
“Listening to people keeps them entertained.”
“Listening to quiet, miserable voices is in his job description.”
Source: The Sun Is Also a Star
“Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.”
“Listening to sad songs is so beautiful when you are alone.”
“Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.”
“Listening to some songs makes us nostalgic. All the past memories flood our mind, and we begin to miss our hometown achingly.”
“Listening to someone talk about what they care about isn’t a fake-boyfriend thing, Kenz. It’s a decent-person thing.”
Source: Picture-Perfect Boyfriend
“Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.”
Source: Limelighters
“Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.”
“Listening to something is an act of surrender.”
“Listening to sublime music relieves you of thought; time comes to a stop; seconds, minutes, hours slide along into a continuum; you are suspended into an exalted world of disbelief.”
Source: A Carrot is a Carrot
“Listening to the audience means that they have to accept that there is something wrong with the product, which is not an easy thing, but it has the potential to save your business from failure. Anything that can grow your business (ethically) is worth considering.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds and city sounds that are very different from what it is I'm used to and I get very fascinated about how that marks a place.”
“Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?”
“Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing. It provides support for programs like the Good News Club, which slowly erode the support for public education in the country at large and in their own constituency in particular. And then it lays the groundwork for dismantling public education in favor of a private system of religious education funded by the state.”
Source: The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America’s Children
“Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom”
“Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.”
Source: The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to A Testament of Devotion
“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.”
“Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.”
“Listening to the music of fountain
Humming after its melody
You must have split the chains
You must have left home.”
“Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.”
Source: 1Q84
“Listening to the night is a way of finding the moon,
for sensing the dark is a way of finding the light.”
“Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.”
“Listening to the shrill rhetoric of hard line Brexiteers - either extolling the virtues of a 'no deal' Brexit, or suggesting its inevitability is simply down to the intransigence of the EU - I am reminded of another great folly in British history: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. It is as if we are witnessing a modern day re-enactment of that foolhardy military manoeuvre in which a mix of poor communication, rash decisions and vainglorious personalities led to the needless massacre of countless cavalrymen. Messrs. Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg may relish the idea of charging headlong into battle against a well prepared and strongly defended position, immune to the ensuing casualties and collateral damage. It would be appreciated if they could kindly leave the rest of us out of their futile and reckless endeavours.”
Source: Lines & Lenses
“Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.”
“Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I’ve yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was ‘I wane be love’, by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton.”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.”
“Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.”
“Listening to what your heart longs for can provide you with the information you need to create a life that you love.”
Source: Divine Purpose, Find the Passion Within
“Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.”
Source: Lonesome Dove: A Novel
“Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.”
“Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!”
“Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.”
“Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.”
“Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.”
“Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Listening with intent to learn holds true for a positive outcome for each economy.”
Source: The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital
“Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.”
Source: Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness
“Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.”
“Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.”
“Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you”