“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
(1886-1965); Theologian, Philosopher
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“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
Lewis Thomas
(born 1913); Physician, Educator
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“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ”
Peter F. Drucker
(1909-2005); Professor, Writer, Management Consultant
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
(1874-1963); Poet
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“Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.”
Alfred Döblin
(1878-1957); German Expressionist Novelist
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“Every person in this life has something to teach me--and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.”
Catherine Doucette

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“Listen not merely to what is said but to the tone of voice in which it is said.”
Chinese Proverb

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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention...A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
Rachel Naomi Remen

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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961); Novelist, Nobel Prize Winner
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“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
Dr. Joyce  [Diane Bauer] Brothers
(born 1929); Psychologist, Author
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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.”
Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger
(1893-1990); Psychiatrist
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“Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.”
Oriana Fallaci
(born 1930); Author
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“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”
Benjamin Bagdikian
(born 1920); Educator, Journalist
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“Listening to people keeps them entertained.”
Mason Cooley
(1927-2002); U.S. Aphorist
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“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
Eudora Welty
(1909-2001); Writer
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