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- Agatha Christie99◆ Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone's pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself, but others.
- Shannon L. Alder99◆ Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
- Eudora Welty99◆ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.
- Ed Cunningham99◆ The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.
- Shannon L. Alder99◆ We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
- Susan Cain99◆ When I hear your name, I involuntarily clench my butt cheeks. Is that love? I don't know—I'm not Nicholas Sparks.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)
- Sura Hart99◆ When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
- Madeleine L'Engle99◆ Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
- Shannon L. Alder99◆ The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
- Alfred Brendel99◆ Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)
- Kate DiCamillo99◆ The heart is the most arrogant and egoistic part of the body, it does not listen to the views of mind, even though the mind may listen the heart's feelings.
- 99◆ Ignorance speaks louder than wisdom; wisdom just listens.
- Wazim Shaw99
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