“Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.”
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”
― Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard: How to Hear and How to Be Heard in Equal Communication
― Caring Enough to Hear and Be Heard: How to Hear and How to Be Heard in Equal Communication
“Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. it's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
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