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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.
When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.
When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. -Unknown.
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's read more
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually and extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will fell less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again. -M. Scott Peck.
In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
