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Listening


A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.(Wilson Mizner)
I like to listen. I've learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.(Doug Larson)
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)
So when you're listening to somebody, completely, attentive, then you're listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.(Jiddu Krisnamurti)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.(James Baldwin)
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal another is listen to each other's stories.(Rebecca Falls)
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.(Plutarch)
Most of the successful people i've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.(Bernard Baruch)


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