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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey Quotes |
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“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich Quotes |
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“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?”
Chinese Proverbs Quotes |
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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.”
Shel Silverstein Quotes |
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“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
Andre Gide Quotes |
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
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“A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.”
Kenneth A. Wells Quotes |
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“But yet she listen'd--'tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Mazeppa (st. 6)
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“He holds him with his glittering eye--
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And listens like a three years' child.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. I, st. 4), last line claimed by Wordsworth
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“Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,), The Sicilian's Tale--Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore
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“In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 17)
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“And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but
to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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“And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”
Wilson Mizner Quotes |
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“Listen. Don't explain or justify.”
William G. Dyer Quotes |
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“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
Frank Tyger Quotes |
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“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”
Epictetus Quotes |
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“From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.”
Italian Proverb Quotes |
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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
Richard Moss Quotes |
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“I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.”
Ernest J. Gaines Quotes |
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“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.”
Katharine Whitehorn Quotes |
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
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“Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.”
Jack Nichols Quotes |
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“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”
Alexander Crummell Quotes |
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