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Agnes Repplier The Luxury of Conversation in Compromises
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
Amish School Saying
Remember: when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something.
Andre Gide
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Arthur Helps
It takes a great man to make a good listener.
Author Unknown
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
Author Unknown
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.
Author Unknown
No one is listening until you fart.
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
Bill Pollard speech at Seattle Pacific University, ca. 1997
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from , and that is excellence in what you do.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty Poustinia
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Charles C. Finn
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Elbert Hubbard
The only way to entertain most people is to listen to them.
Eli Khamarov, America Explained!
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said.
Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
George Bush
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
Isaiah Berlin
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
James Baldwin
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Kenneth A. Wells
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
 
 
 
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