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• Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

  Plato

  Real, Believe, Mean

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Reading, Men, Voice

  Nikolai Gogol (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated)”, p.782, Delphi Classics

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• A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Answers, Persons, Seems

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.232, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Here I Am, Voice, Judging

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.19, New World Library

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• We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

  Rumi

  Echoes, Mirrors, Voice

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• I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  People, Important, Customers

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• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Teach, Dialogue

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• Listening to nature's operating instructions.

  Janine Benyus

  Instruction

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• There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Yelling, Wind

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Years, Tough Times

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.

  Chuck Cannon

  Music, Song, Ideas

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• To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Men, Composer

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• ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Long, Giving, Silence

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Success Comes from listening to your customer.

  Richard Branson

  Customers

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• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Reading, Writing, Blessing

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• I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.

  Selma Blair

  Dream, Song, Princess

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• My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldnt hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do The Brady Bunch because Id have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

  Susan Olsen

  Hurt, Kids, Play

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• I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

  FKA twigs

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

  "FKA Twigs Is a Woman of Mystery -- And She Likes It That Way" by Devon Maloney, www.billboard.com. August 18, 2014.

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• My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Stars, Children, Real

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

  Ellen Langer

  Discovery, Ideas, Creative

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• Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits of that essential relationship- the intimate, fertile conversation between our own heart's wisdom and the way the world has emerged before us- becomes a lifelong practice of deep and sacred listening for the next right thing we are required to do. We make the only choice that feels authentic and honest, necessary and true in that moment.

  Wayne Muller

  Heart, Practice, Choices

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• God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

  Jim George

  Two, Ears, Should

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.33, Harvest House Publishers

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• We are on the verge of listening

  Earl Lovelace

  Verge

  ""We are on the verge of listening"". Interview with B.C. Pires, caribbeanreviewofbooks.com.

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