One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
Franklin P. Jones

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
Bill Watterson

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
Thor Heyerdahl

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Bill Wyman

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

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
Ben Harper

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy

I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.
Tre Cool

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Joan Didion

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Bernard Baruch

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

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth

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

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
Jerry Lawler

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

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Margaret J. Wheatley

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
Joni Mitchell