"No one is listening until you make a mistake."
Anon.

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."
American Indian Proverb

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
Calvin Coolidge

"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."
Boris Marshalov

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...."
C. S. Lewis

"Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking."
Vincent McNabb

"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
Kenneth A. Wells

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."
Brendan Francis

"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
Pearl Bailey

"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
Simone Weil

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
Kahlil Gibran

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
Rabindranath Tagore

"Worship the gods, listen to their advice, but don't lend them money."
Anon.

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." H. L. Mencken

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." -Charles Caleb Colton

"If you can still hear the music, it's not loud enough!" -Anon.

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