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Inspirational Quotes About Listening
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“To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.”
Author
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“When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.”
Writer, Speaker
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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
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“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
Psychologist, Author
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“Listening to people keeps them entertained.”
U.S. Aphorist
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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.”
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.”
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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.”
Author
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Poet
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“I like to listen. I have learned a
great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.”
Novelist, Nobel Prize Winner
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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.”
Psychiatrist
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“Listen not merely to what is said but to the tone of voice in which it is said.”
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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.”
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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.”
Physician, Educator
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“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Theologian, Philosopher
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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.”
Writer
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“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ”
Professor, Writer, Management Consultant
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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.”
Educator, Journalist
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