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"Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple. Every head is a world."
—Cuban Proverb
"One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider a problem, can change our whole outlook on the world."
—Dr. E. H. Mayo
"When you’ve learned how to listen, well that’s when you’ve learned everything you need to know in your life!"
—Glynn David Harris
International Listening Association’s 1999
Listener of the Year
"Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us."
—Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) US poet, author
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."
—Ralph Nichols
"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
—Turkish Proverb
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
—Dr. Joyce Brothers
"An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one’s own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker’s world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. This unification of speaker and listener is actually an extension and enlargement of ourselves, and new knowledge is always gained from this. Moreover, since true listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the other. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the duet dance of love is begun again."
—M. Scott Peck, MD, The Road Less Traveled
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
—e.e. cummings
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