Famous quotes containing the word listen:
“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In the continual enterprise of trying to guide appropriately, renegotiate with, listen to and just generally coexist with our teenage children, we ourselves are changed. We learn even more clearly what our base-line virtues are. We listen to our teenagers and change our minds about some things, stretching our own limits. We learn our own capacity for flexibility, firmness and endurance.”
—Jean Jacobs Speizer. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Collective, ch. 4 (1978)
“When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say “What lovely music!””
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)