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Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.


Letitia Baldrige

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He that decrees his beliefs & believes his decrees shall be made great.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
JAMES CLAVELL It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
FELIX FRANKFURTER We must be silent before we can listen.
We must listen before we can learn.
We must learn be...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD all of his orders and decrees.
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO You will close your eyes. And listen carefully . . . . You must learn to listen carefully when peopl...
CéLESTE ALBARET First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Mo...
FRANK DELANEY Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees...
MARK TWAIN We must be silent before we can listen.We must listen before we can learn.We must learn before we ca...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that ...
STELLA ADLER Learn to listen, then listen to learn
IAN USHER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Leaders should learn to listen and listen to learn
LEADERSHIP3SIXTY.COM Preconceived notions must be eliminated from the justice system. You will not be able to prejudge hi...
CYNTHIA ROSS By 1998, the Americans got accustomed to the fact that people in Russia must listen to them and they...
YEVGENY ADAMOV Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for y...
KAREL CAPEK Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
KARA DIOGUARDI But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell whe...
ARLENE J. CHAI Your business isn't about what you want. It's about what your customers want! You must be willing to...
JOHN DI LEMME If people do not look after their hearts they will soon see a flag of submission and the fight will ...
GARY F EVANS... Listen to your instincts. Trust yourself. You'll know when you're being honest with yourself and whe...
AKIROQ BROST When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I t...
KIRK DOUGLAS Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Learn to listen and weigh other person’s reasoning with yours.Be humble enough to know that you co...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One must talk little and listen much
AFRICAN PROVERB You may not be able to listen like I do, but you can learn just like I do.
JACOB TAMME The products your life must have could be in the form of books you’ve read or teachings you listen...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
ROBERT BRAULT You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live.
WOODY GUTHRIE If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.
FRANK IERO This is a peaceful protest ... the government must listen to us.
NITIN JADHAV I am pleased to hear that decrees have now been issued that should have been issued years and years ...
COLIN POWELL You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you mu...
JOSEPHINE BAKER Listen to learn. Learn to earn!
ROB LIANO Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' 'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find...
PAULO COELHO Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind...
THURGOOD MARSHALL Listen to the inner you, the outer you just might learn a thing or two.
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI When you listen, be silent. When you are silent, listen...
PHILIP T. M. Learn when to talk and when to listen. If you're unsure, listen.
J. KYLE MCNEAL Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
MAGGIE SMITH With fear, you must prevent not cure. Fear must nor be allowed to take hold in the first place. If y...
RANULPH FIENNES You must have a definite purpose of life. To reach that purpose, you must be flexible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.
POPE BENEDICT XVI When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I...
GORDON BROWN I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We...
EUGENE H. PETERSON There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...
AMIT RAY The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
TEA LEONI Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
ENGLISH PROVERB You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in sil...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
JARED SPARKS To learn more, listen more.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Every time you listen to the radio, you listen to Robert Moog's influence.
CHARLES CARLINI Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very ...
QUEEN VICTORIA My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It is good to listen to others, but I must still determine what applies to me.
JIM GENOVESE Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might act...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might act...
AULIQ ICE Listen! Do you hear that?
JAMES LLOYD I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.
MOTHER ANGELICA Listen to yourself. The more you do, the more people will listen to you.
EPHDAN Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a gro...
PETER USTINOV Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growi...
PETER USTINOV I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimen...
CHAIM POTOK After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.
Third should c...
HYRUM YEAKLEY After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.
Third should c...
HYRUM YEAKLEY Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
MARIAH CAREY Never, never listen to anybody that tries to discourage you...
MARIAH CAREY You have to be able to listen. You have got to listen to the singer and give them what they need to ...
RAY BROWN The first thing they learn is discipline. You do what you're told, and you behave and listen to inst...
DAVID RODRIGUEZ JR If you want to be great, you must learn the secret of great men.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have...
BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE Do not listen to everything you hear, and do not believe everything you listen to.
ABHISHEK KUMAR If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
ESTELLE Never allow the noise around you to overcome the voice within. Be in tune with thyself and learn to ...
EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
DONALD MILLER Always listen to the warnings from your heart.
TERESA COLLINS What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f...
AVIVA MUST We know that children who are overweight have advanced bone development -- they grow faster in all w...
AVIVA MUST For the parents of a girl who is not overweight and who gets her first period early, it doesn't mean...
AVIVA MUST Given the epidemic of obesity in the population, it's important to know where best to intervene.
AVIVA MUST You must learn to open your mind, don’t be a shallow person
SUNDAY ADELAJA To earn more you must learn more.
BRIAN TRACY And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good frien...
KAMAND KOJOURI When you listen to crust and grinds, Listen to crust and grinds.
JEFFREY FISCHER Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inn...
SRI CHINMOY Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it...
QURAN Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
FRANK TYGER Learn to listen, opportunity often knocks softly.
UNKNOWN The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you...
WILLIAM JAMES Listen to that song, and learn it! Half my kingdom would I give, As I live, If by such s...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the he...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the hea...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrat...
MEISTER ECKHART Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, ...
OFRA STRAUSS Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
ROBERT FULGHUM And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say things to hurt yo...
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