"Dog's listen, or appear to listen. I think they hear blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah. They appear to be listening to you."
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"If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it."
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"It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't."
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"Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed."
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"Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things."
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"Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something."
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"I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure."
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"Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent."
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"In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face."
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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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"When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery."
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"If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'"
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"we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure."
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"The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries."
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"I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace."
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"There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word."
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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."
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"The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish."
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"To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin."
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"Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!"
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