Topic: Perspective
| On Listening |
"Most people need a good listening to." - Maria Galenza
"I can't help thinking that this would be a better world if everyone would listen to me." - Lucy Van Pelt, Peanuts (Charles Shultz)
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." - Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne)
"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
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." - Andre Gide
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
"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
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also." - Igor Stravinsky
"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Listening is the only way to entertain some folks." - Kin Hubbard
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." - Albert Guinon
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say." - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker." - Isaiah Berlin
"No man ever listened himself out of a job." - Calvin Coolidge
"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." - Dorothy Sarnoff
"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor." - Hugh Elliott
"A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat." - Katharine Whitehorn
"A good listener is usually thinking about something else." - Kin Hubbard
"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens." - Nick Diamos
"Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Don't LOOK at anything in a physics lab. Don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab. Don't SMELL anything in a biology lab. Don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab. And, most importantly, don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department." - Bill Lye
"Women like silent men. They think they're listening." - Marcel Archard
Posted by Alan at 09:46 PST
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