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• Listen with your heart, you will understand.

  Pocahontas

  Heart, Passed Away, Death Poems

  Song: Listen With Your Heart I

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• The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perfect, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

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• Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.

  Penelope Trunk

  Powerful, Hate, Thinking

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• I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

  Livy

  Men, Thinking, Advice

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• We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

  Serge King

  Prayer, Blessing, Web Of Life

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• Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Process, Good Listener, Reciprocal

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Mean, Stories

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• It takes a great man to make a great listener

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Law, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Able, Changed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Inspirational, Marketing, Occupation

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• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Country, Character

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• There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Believe, Heart, Two

  Henry Van Dyke (1924). “Six Days of the Week: A Book of Thoughts about Life and Religion”

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• Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  Simone Weil

  Nursing, Compassion, Affliction

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thought Provoking

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

  Nikki Giovanni

  Learning, Responsibility, Language

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• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Listening To Others

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• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

  Sam Walton

  Ideas, Effective Listening, Keys

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• In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

  Max De Pree

  Listening To Others, Effective Listening, Leader

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

  Saadi

  Wall, Care, May

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Letting Go, Want, Emotion

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• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Communication, Advice

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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• Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Silence, Cures

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

  Emma Thompson

  Family, Communication, Effective Listening

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