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Letter "L" » Listening
«Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
| About:
Force,
Listening
| Keywords:
alternate, alternating, alternating current, current, re-create, re-created, tired of
«If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase»
Author: Brian Koslow
| About:
Listening
| Keywords:
answers, appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, asking, giving, increase, listening, opinions, questions, skills, spend
«If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.»
«I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cleaned out his desk, when the two of them sat down to dinner that night he would say, ?Boy was that desk a mess.?»
«I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.»
Author: Robert McCloskey
| About:
Confusion,
Funny,
Listening,
Understanding
| Keywords:
also known as, as we say, believe, but, Did you know, heard, hear out, Hear say, is, is not, I Think I Do, know, meant, not, Not sure, realize, said, Say Any, sure, that, The More You Know, think, think out, think over, think up, understand, well thought out, WHAT
«I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Listening
| Keywords:
a great deal, carefully, great deal, listening
«Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.»
«It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Listening,
Speech,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
privilege, province, Provinces of, Province of, The Province
«I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more»
«If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Gossip,
Listening,
Success,
Work
| Keywords:
being, by mouth, do work, equal, equaled, equaling, equals, formula, formulas, for keeps, in play, is a, keeping, kept up, mouth, mouthed, On the Mouth, out of work, play, played out, play out, play up, plus, pluses, shut, shutting, shut in, success, then, The Formula, with, work, work over, work through, work up
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