Listen Closely Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell…
— Barbara Oakley
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The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the…
— John Fante
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Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's…
— Philip Berrigan
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Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate. If every woman…
— Laurie Cabot
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough,…
— Mark Nepo
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Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it…
— Neville Goddard
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural…
— Larry Sabato
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
— Javan
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It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well…
— Mark Nepo
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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on.…
— Jack Kerouac
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There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end…
— Edwidge Danticat
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Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything…
— Susan Sontag
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a…
— Langston Hughes
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Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,…
— Dean Koontz
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Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.
— Walt Disney
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Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot.…
— John Green
Who Wrote These Listen Closely Quotes
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