"I get my ideas from listening from within."
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"part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations."
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"The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself."
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"Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening."
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"Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool."
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"Most people never listen."
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"And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed."
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"Passion is listening."
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"I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions."
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"I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life."
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"By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person."
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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up."
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"Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person."
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"I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE."
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"Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening"
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"Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place."
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"Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening"
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"For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes."
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"Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said."
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