Definition of Listening

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Definition of Listening
	Listening of Listen Related Definitions: Listen, Of

Listening Quotations

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Listening Translations

listening in Italian is ascoltante
listening in Swedish is lyssna, lyssnar

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