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«Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.»
«If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase»
Author: Brian Koslow
| About:
Listening
| Keywords:
answers, appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, asking, giving, increase, listening, opinions, questions, skills, spend
«Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.»
«Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening»
«One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.»
«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.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
Bach, Brains, effort, explain, human mind, listening, transfixed, transfixing
«Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Reading
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bottom, echoes, familiar, listening, On Your Toes, The Bottom, toes, Wade, waded, wades, wading
«It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.»
«I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Listening
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a great deal, carefully, great deal, listening
«In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.»
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