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quotes by topic Listening

" I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself. "

F. Sionil José

Want , Listening

" I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older "

Listening , Acting

" Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of existence? We like to talk to people who answer us, intelligently if possible, but we do talk without needing response or expecting comprehension. Sometimes, the event is the word, the act of speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working-because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray. "

Emily Dickinson

Philosophy , Listening

" An appreciative listener is always stimulating. "

Agatha Christie

Listening

" She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words. "

Listening

Waiting , Listening

James Cash Penney

Success , Art , Communication , Listening , Management

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees , Earth , Effort , Listening , Heaven

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees , Earth , Effort , Listening , Heaven

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