Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.
Stephen Colbert

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
John Madden

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
Charles Stanley

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
Ann Landers

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Ross Perot

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
Bruce Springsteen

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley