Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves."
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Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener"
Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener."
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener."
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator."
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"Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost."
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"Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller."
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"Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener."
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"For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
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"We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak."
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"We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us."
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"A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener."
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