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“You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.”
Marjorie Kellogg
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing.”
Maxwell Maltz
“When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.”
Florence Griffith Joyner
“Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.”
Dogen
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”
Wilson Mizner
“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening”
Dorothy Sarnoff
“It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening”
Marge Piercy
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you”
Saint Bartholomew
“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
Bernard M. Baruch
