Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. Jean Cocteau
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you. George Washington Carver
If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know. Bill Cosby
You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying. Lynn Davies
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III. Martin Bashir
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. Maya Angelou