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• The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.

  Michael Franti

  Mean, Echoes, Feelings

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

  Alan Lowenthal

  Issues, Passionate, Care

  "New House members of 113th Congress: K-L-M", www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

  Jean Craighead George

  Writing, People, Problem

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• be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Judging, Boundaries

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

  George W. Bush

  Actors, Good Actors, Listeners

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• It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

  Paul Neilan

  Mean, Night, Talking

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• I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.

  John Green

  Cheer, Nice, Passion

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.81, Penguin

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• In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

  Christopher Pike

  Gossip, World, Orators

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Desire, Doe

  "How To Listen: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

  Howard Stern

  Jobs, Work, Missing

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• Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Long, Politician, Listeners

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• One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Agreement, Bird

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• I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Cities, People

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.70, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I'm a darned good listener.

  Naomi Judd

  Listeners

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• I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

  Johnny Reid

  Two, People, Ears

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communication, Compliments You, Talking

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• Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Listeners

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1258, Delacorte Press

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• I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.

  Dave Koz

  Talking, Collaboration, Ears

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• The reason that I'm considered to be prolific is just because I'm a good listener. It literally is me taking dictation when I write. I'm listening and typing as fast as I'm hearing the words.

  Doreen Virtue

  Writing, Listening, Hearing

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• It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also think you have to feel like you want to enrich your life, and you want to keep your eyes open, and you want to listen and be a good listener.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Letting Go, Humility, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Entrepreneur, Needs, Helping

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good listener, however. Thinking that I was a good listener was one thing that kept me from being a good listener. It's a very dangerous thought. I just want to be better.

  Gordon Hempton

  Thinking, Listening, Dangerous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think a good director is a good listener.

  Denis Villeneuve

  Thinking

  "INTERVIEW | 'Incendies' Director Denis Villeneuve: 'I think a good director is a good listener'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. April 22, 2011.

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• I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Regret, Silence, World

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• I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

  Barbara Walters

  Art, Women, People

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