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Ernest Hemingway
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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Anon.
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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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Alfred De Musset
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We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.
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Seneca
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Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
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Herbert Gardner
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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
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Marcel Archard
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Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
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Marlon Brando
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An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
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Franklin P. Jones
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Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.
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Stella Terrill Mann
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Listening is a form of accepting.
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Edith Sitwell
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Doug Larson
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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Steven Wright
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I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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James Arthur Baldwin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF Is anyone listening to me
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George Bernard Shaw
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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Reubin Askew
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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Steven Wright
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I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what itis. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and Isay, "I think I might have written that."
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Dumb & Dumber
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Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
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Barry M. Goldwater
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Sir John Lubbock
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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M Scott Peck
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. Or something. I dunno, I was only half listening. Becca said it, anyway. Ask her.
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Simone Weil
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Ernest Hemingway
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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Andrew Schneider
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You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.
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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Autumn Woods._
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But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.
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Walt Whitman
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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HOOD: _Autumn._
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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Fran Lebowitz
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Alan B. Watts
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
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Alan Marshall Beck
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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'
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Clive Staples Lewis
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What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
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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.
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Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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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.
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A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word but which begins the second, or a
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"...so you spend a miserable evening listening to Klingon opera."--Odo
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"Anything's better than listening to an album by Olivia Newton-John."
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts." - Calvin
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"This is weird, listening to them plan our funeral." Geordi
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"Nobody's listening to you Rimmer!" * Lister
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"I'll deal with them! I'm not listening to a woman!" -Hikaru
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"I get vertigo just listening to tall stories."
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"Captain! The tricorder isn't listening to me!" - Worf
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"Are the other services as easy listening as the Air Force?"
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Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
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"Why don't we do it on the stove?" - Listening Woman
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"Easy Listening" - By F. M. Radio
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"I'm listening." Dr. Frasier Crane
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"I'm just making sure you're listening." - The Mask
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By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence wher
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
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"So, Dave, I says ta her, I says...Dave, you listening?" - HAL
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