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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to
him." | |
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Brendan Francis
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| "An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart." | |
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David Augsburger
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| "Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are
endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast
curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening
carefully. Most people never listen." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "I"ll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has
to say." | |
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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| "If the person you are talking to doesn"t appear to be listening, be
patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his
ear." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard
what I meant to say." | |
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Unknown
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| "If you want to be listened to, you should put in time
listening." | |
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Marge Piercy
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| "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of
wisdom to listen." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "It takes two to speak the truth ? one to speak and the other to
hear." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Let me listen to me and not to them." | |
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Gertrude Stein
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| "Listen and attend with the ear of your heart." | |
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Saint Benedict
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| "Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to
know." | |
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| "Listen with your heart, you will understand." | |
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Pocahontas
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| "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." | |
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Karl Augustus Menninger
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| "Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we
really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this
recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly
being re-created." | |
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Brenda Ueland
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| "Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like
staring at a cow for forty-five minutes." | |
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Aaron Copland
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| "No man would listen to you talk if he didn"t know it was his turn
next." | |
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Edgar Watson "Ed" Howe
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| "No one ever lost his job by listening too much." | |
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John Calvin Coolidge
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| "One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears ? by
listening to them." | |
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Dean Rusk
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| "Patience is a most necessary quality for business: many a man would
rather you heard his story than granted his request." | |
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Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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| "Stop, look and listen." | |
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Proverb
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| "There is only one rule for being a good talker ? learn to
listen." | |
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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| "We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much." | |
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Sojourner Truth
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| "We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more
and speak less." | |
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Diogenes Laertius
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| "While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the
necessity of listening is what makes that right important." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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