When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George Carlin

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
Will Ferrell

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
Drew Barrymore