“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
“You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?”
“Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening”
“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”
“There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.”
“Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers?Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.”