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No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Never tell your story to a deaf man.
-Proverb
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A hungry stomach has no ears.
-Proverb
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He listens well who takes notes.
-Dante Alighieri
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There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
-Gillian Anderson
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
-Pearl Bailey
Talking to Myself
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You need to become a good listener. VERY VERY important. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
-Jacqueline Bisset
Interview on Chats from the Past
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
-Joyce Brothers
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
-Abigail Van Buren
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It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
-Dick Cavett
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One who cares is one who listens.
-J. Richard Clarke
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
-Calvin Coolidge
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No one every listened themselves out of a job.
-Calvin Coolidge
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
-Peter Drucker
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Listen. Don't explain or justify.
-William G. Dyer
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
-Epictetus
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Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
-John Erskine
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One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
-Rebecca Falls
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
-Brendan Francis
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Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!
-James Dillet Freeman
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Your ability to move others into appropriate, timely, and effective action is largely determined by the consequences of your speaking and listening.
-Suzanne Mayo Frindt
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The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
-Germain G. Glien
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
-Johann von Goethe
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
-Edmond de Goncourt
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
-Ernest Hemingway
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Books about Listening
