Listening Quotations
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| No one is listening until you fart. | |||
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| My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. | |||
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| Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. | |||
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| Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. | |||
| - James Baldwin | |||
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| Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. | |||
| - Margaret Cho | |||
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| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| No man ever listened himself out of a job. | |||
| - Calvin Coolidge | |||
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| Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. | |||
| - Nick Diamos | |||
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| Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor. | |||
| - Hugh Elliott | |||
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| We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. | |||
| - Epictetus | |||
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| Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. | |||
| - Robert Fulghum | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - André Gide | |||
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| When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. | |||
| - Ernest Hemingway | |||
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| It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| A good listener is usually thinking about something else. | |||
| - Kin Hubbard | |||
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| I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. | |||
| - Eli Khamarov | |||
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| Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. | |||
| - Wilson Mizner | |||
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| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. | |||
| - Plutarch | |||
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| Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. | |||
| - Native American Proverb | |||
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| To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. | |||
| - Frank Tyger | |||
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| A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. | |||
| - Katharine Whitehorn | |||