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| Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. ~ Doug Larson |
| We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~ Epictetus |
| Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. ~ Isaiah Berlin |
| Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~ Native American Indian Proverb |
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill |
| The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. ~ Andre Gide |
| I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~ Charles C. Finn |
| No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~ Author Unknown |
| The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. ~ Peter F. Drucker |
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| If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. ~ Robert Brault |
| My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said. ~ Author Unknown |
| Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum |
| Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem. ~ Benjamin Hoff, |
| The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~ Tommy Smothers |
| I guess I’ve spent my life listening to what wasn’t being said. ~ Eli Khamarov, |
| Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~ James Baldwin |
| No one is listening until you fart. ~ Author Unknown |
| Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~ Marcel Achard, |