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LISTEN
A
good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a
while he knows something.
~Wilson Mizner Churchill
Mackay~
The
first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul
Tillich~
To
listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk
well, and is as essential to all true conversation.
~Chinese Proverb~
Listening
is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The
friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When
we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and
expand.
~Source Unknown~
I
like
to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening
carefully. Most people never listen.
~Ernest Hemingway~
Deep
listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When
someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging,
intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.
~Sue Patton~
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~
It
is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the
privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Oliver
Wendell Holmes~
A
good
listener is a silent flatterer.
~Proverb~
Most
of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more
listening than talking.
~Bernard
M. Baruch~
Listening
is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with
another which both attracts and heals.
~J. Isham~
The
greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked
me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
~Henry David
Thoreau~
You
cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the
same time.
~M. Scott
Peck~
Listening,
not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
~Dr. Joyce Brothers~
Wisdom
is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd
have preferred to talk.
~D.
J. Kaufman~
Many
a man would rather you heard his story than granted his
request.
~Phillip
Stanhope~
Silence
is a source of great strength.
~Lao
Tzu~
The
most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and
be understood. The best way to understand people is to
listen to them.
~Ralph
Nichols~
One
advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least
somebody’s listening.
~Franklin
P. Jones~
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