Listen
verb
To give attention to someone or something in order to hear them.
She listened carefully to his explanation.
Often appears as...
- listen carefully
- listen attentively
verb
To take advice or heed to someone's words.
Listen to your mother; she knows best.
Often appears as...
- listen to advice
- listen to someone
verb
To hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
He does not listen to his teacher's instructions.
Often appears as...
- listen to instructions
- listen to orders
verb
To wait attentively for a sound or signal.
Listen for the sound of her car.
Often appears as...
- listen for a sound
- listen for a signal
verb
To give attention to someone or something in order to hear them.
She listened carefully to his explanation.
Often appears as...
- listen carefully
- listen attentively
verb
To take advice or heed to someone's words.
Listen to your mother; she knows best.
Often appears as...
- listen to advice
- listen to someone
verb
To hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
He does not listen to his teacher's instructions.
Often appears as...
- listen to instructions
- listen to orders
verb
To wait attentively for a sound or signal.
Listen for the sound of her car.
Often appears as...
- listen for a sound
- listen for a signal
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Pro Tip 1/2Active Engagement
Listening isn't passive; actively engage with what you hear to understand better.
Listen to the poem's rhythm to appreciate its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Verbal Context
Consider the speaker's body language and facial expressions for full understanding.
She listened, noting his anxious expressions.
Pro Tip 1/2Active Engagement
Listening isn't passive; actively engage with what you hear to understand better.
Listen to the poem's rhythm to appreciate its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Verbal Context
Consider the speaker's body language and facial expressions for full understanding.
She listened, noting his anxious expressions.
Pro Tip 1/2Active Engagement
Listening isn't passive; actively engage with what you hear to understand better.
Listen to the poem's rhythm to appreciate its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-Verbal Context
Consider the speaker's body language and facial expressions for full understanding.
She listened, noting his anxious expressions.
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How playing an...
especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices. As with any other workout, disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities. The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it
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How interpreters juggle...
to become a conference interpreter. To get used to the unnatural task of speaking while they listen, students shadow speakers and repeat their every word exactly as heard in the same language. In time, they begin to paraphrase what is said, making stylistic adjustments as they go.
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The benefits of a...
Language ability is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading. While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages
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Can Nature Make Us...
and in recent years we started to pay more attention to how the sounds of nature might be therapeutic listening to songbirds so things like blackbird robin wren here in the uk could be really important but also sounds of flowing water are really highly rated
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Danica Patrick Eats a...
in as a girl to that world, especially when you went professional? Well, I mean, I don't know if I thought it was harder as much as I just ended up realizing it was harder kind of thing. I mean, everything from racing to listening to people say
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3 tips to boost your...
There are a few tricks that can give you an immediate confidence boost in the short term. Picture your success when you're beginning a difficult task, something as simple as listening to music with deep bass; it can promote feelings of power.
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Are China and the US...
Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper, a headline which said, here we have a huge change.
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A message of peace, hope...
announced that you were taking a hiatus film abandoning your your musical career and you probably broke millions of hearts around the world including mine what what what what why whena would you do that okay so if you'd have listened to my
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The hidden meanings of...
a person will not have to fight against the universe's natural flow. So, for example, listen more, argue less. Be ready to back up or undo something, and you will make even faster progress. Don't worry about being the best,
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Earworms: Those songs...
If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.
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How playing an...
especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices. As with any other workout, disciplined, structured practice in playing music strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities. The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it
Video examples
How interpreters juggle...
to become a conference interpreter. To get used to the unnatural task of speaking while they listen, students shadow speakers and repeat their every word exactly as heard in the same language. In time, they begin to paraphrase what is said, making stylistic adjustments as they go.
Video examples
The benefits of a...
Language ability is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading. While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages
Video examples
Can Nature Make Us...
and in recent years we started to pay more attention to how the sounds of nature might be therapeutic listening to songbirds so things like blackbird robin wren here in the uk could be really important but also sounds of flowing water are really highly rated
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Danica Patrick Eats a...
in as a girl to that world, especially when you went professional? Well, I mean, I don't know if I thought it was harder as much as I just ended up realizing it was harder kind of thing. I mean, everything from racing to listening to people say
Video examples
3 tips to boost your...
There are a few tricks that can give you an immediate confidence boost in the short term. Picture your success when you're beginning a difficult task, something as simple as listening to music with deep bass; it can promote feelings of power.
Video examples
Are China and the US...
Anyone here ever listen to what their mom told them to do? Everyone ever do what their mom told them to do? I rarely did, but what my mom said to me was, one day, she handed me a newspaper, a headline which said, here we have a huge change.
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A message of peace, hope...
announced that you were taking a hiatus film abandoning your your musical career and you probably broke millions of hearts around the world including mine what what what what why whena would you do that okay so if you'd have listened to my
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The hidden meanings of...
a person will not have to fight against the universe's natural flow. So, for example, listen more, argue less. Be ready to back up or undo something, and you will make even faster progress. Don't worry about being the best,
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Earworms: Those songs...
If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology. The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
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Marilyn Monroe
American Actress
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
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Virgil Abloh
American Designer
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painter
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
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Future
American Musician
Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
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Paul Walker
American Actor
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
Quote examples
Marilyn Monroe
American Actress
I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
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Virgil Abloh
American Designer
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painter
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
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Future
American Musician
Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Quote examples
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
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Paul Walker
American Actor
I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
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