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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway
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No man ever listened himself out of a job. -Calvin Coolidge
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard
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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. -Margaret Cho
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Igor Stravinsky
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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. -Po Bronson
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If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase.

Brian Koslow
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Very few people would listen if they didn't know it was their turn next.

Robert Conklin
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -Wilson Mizner
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Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Nick Diamos
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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Hugh Elliott
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -Plutarch
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Listen and be led.

L. M. Heroux
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

Theodore H. White
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Dorothy Sarnoff
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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Katharine Whitehorn
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We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less. -Epictetus
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost
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This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. -Seneca
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You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Matt Groening
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It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Matt Groening
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Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. -Frank Tyger
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