Listen
To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
To give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey.
To attend to.
Related Definitions:
Admonition,
Advice,
Attend,
Attention,
Close,
Ear,
Follow,
Give,
Hearing,
Hearken,
Heed,
Obey,
Of,
Purpose,
The,
To,
With,
Yield
Listen Quotations
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Confucius
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Listen Translations
listen in Afrikaans is luister naar, luister
listen in Danish is lytte til, lytte
listen in Dutch is aanhoren, beluisteren, luisteren
listen in Finnish is kuunnella
listen in Italian is ascoltare, sentisti, udizione
listen in Portuguese is escutar, escute
listen in Spanish is escuchar, oir
listen in Swedish is lyssna
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