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Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Life
Smile
Listening
Word
Power
Too
Caring
Kind
Kind Word
Compliment
Touch
Potential
Smallest
Underestimate
Around
Often
Which
Turn
Act
Ear
Honest
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Great
I Have Learned
People
Listening
Great Deal
Carefully
Never
Like
Most
Learned
Deal
Listen
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
Franklin P. Jones
Funny
You
Yourself
Listening
Somebody
Advantage
Know
Talking
Least
Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
Joel Osteen
Smile
Time
Needs
You
Money
Listening
Somebody
Encouragement
Others
Everyone
Give
Something
Arms
Knows
Encourage
Uplift
May
Your
Who
Ear
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
Joanna Lumley
Time
You
Marriage
Quality
Little Things
Listening
Three
Important
Sit
Down
Nice
Other
Ghastly
Say
Alive
Out
Phrase
Vital
Rush
Minutes
Someone
Rather
Small
Remembering
Taking
Over
Quality Time
Still
Doing
Yelling
Than
Just
Little
Means
Shoulder
Your
Each
Nice Things
Keep
Things
Treats
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Good
Listening
Imitate
Never
Failed
Been
Very
Children
Them
Elders
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
Time
Day
Nature
Lie
Clouds
Water
Sometimes
Listening
Sky
Rest
Grass
Trees
Summer
Idleness
Across
Means
Float
Waste
Waste Of Time
Murmur
Watching
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Larry King
Myself
Day
Morning
Me
Listening
Will
Nothing
Every
Say
Must
Remind
Learn
Going
Anything
Teach
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall
You
Change
People
Listening
Believe
Something
Dialogue
Doing
Happens
Then
Who
Right
Starting
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin Powell
Work
Needs
Tough Times
You
Together
People
Listening
Diplomacy
Tough
Own
Other
Preserving
Relationships
Guy
Develop
Come
Times
Work Together
Your
Position
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